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deleverage

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Deleverage (verb) means to lower how much money is owed by quickly selling off assets.

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To lower how much money is owed by quickly selling off assets.

"Because the country is exposed to large interest rate shocks, this triggers a strong precautionary-saving response: households deleverage fast and massively." — Hausmann-Guil, Approximating around the Stochastic Steady State Matters: Rethinking Uncertainty Shocks in Small Open Economies (2026)

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