Positive feedback loop with US buying Asian-produced imports
A postiive feedback loop emerged in which low US interest rates fuelled domestic US expenditure on imported consumer goods from the Asian economies, and Asian countries invested the proceeds in US Treasury bills, which kept US interest rates low.
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