Capital Controls
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After five decades of financial flow globalization and connectivity, the specter of destructive isolation and individual country policy is rising. Money is flowing out of European banks rapidly – the US is the temporary recipient but realizes that it will take higher interest rates to hold it. And higher market rates could increase the US annual debt cost to equal its defense budget… crippling its economy. Traditional solution: capital controls holding money in the US involuntarily.