Correlation, in financial terms, is a mathematical model that indicates how closely the returns of various assets match each other.

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Though the quantity of new money created in recent years is beyond precedent, there was already a longstanding inverse correlation between the monetary base and inflation, expressed in terms of official indices as well as gold.

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Correlation is the measure by which how closely two assets relate to one another in terms of direction and price movement.

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The toxic correlation of sovereign and bank borrowing rates implies that the rise in government financing costs will be felt in terms of higher bank lending rates.

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