Meaning of doom loop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A death spiral or adverse feedback loop.
2. A feedback loop that can occur when banks hold government bonds and governments with weak public finances bail out such banks.

Examples

“Britain is caught in a Covid doom loop, the pattern of which is becoming depressingly familiar. A new variant of the virus appears. It spreads rapidly. Restrictions are imposed to slow transmission rates and to take pressure off the NHS, but the economy suffers.”

“Online discourse about San Francisco's “doom loop”, a downward economic and social spiral that becomes irreversible, feels less like hyperbole by the day.”

“Some graduates described feeling caught in an A.I. “doom loop.””

“That can make the models’ translation of these languages particularly error-prone, which creates a sort of linguistic doom loop as people continue to add more and more poorly translated Wikipedia pages using those tools, and AI models continue to train from poorly translated pages.”

“This is the only remedy that would permit an escape from the “doom loop” described by Piergiorgio Alessandri and Andrew Haldane (2009), whereby, when financial institutions are seen as “too big to fail,” governments have no option but to bail them out with public money, no matter how many times they claim they will not do so.”

“However, uncertainty over the scale of the selloff – and how long it would run – raised concerns about a “doom loop”, where asset sales depressed prices further, resulting in higher collateral calls, which then sparked further sales.”

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