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AFTER a decade of flooding economies with money, key central banks next year will finally start turning off the tap.
Since the financial crisis, they've kept interest rates near zero and some have bought trillions of dollars in government and corporate bonds. The idea was that low rates would encourage spending by businesses and consumers.
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