But the gold standard and its successor, the Bretton Woods system, eventually fell apart. In their place came the “bond-market vigilantes”. The idea was that investors would boycott the debt issues of offending countries and force governments to bring fiscal policy back into line. That discipline was undermined by the investment policies of Asian and Middle Eastern central banks, which recycled their surpluses into government bonds and kept countries' cost of borrowing down.
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