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Financial repression is basically a tax on captive bondholders and it works best when you have banks over a proverbial barrel

the pejorative sobriquet of financial repression

They argue, inter alia, that consolidating in a downturn is twice as risky as doing it in an upturn

reflationary road the the Roosevelt administration took through the depression years [...] the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agrictultural Adjustment Act through the Social Security Act and the Wagner Act's focus on maintaining consumption

when you hand over your goods (an export) to someone far away, that the money in which they will pay you back (as payment for their import) is not just a pile of worthless paper--the so-called fiat money problem?