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Value After Hours S04 E32: Tera-Caps and Tech Outperformance; The Price of Time;

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What's the Story Behind the Low Interest Rates?

The first experiment in quantitative easing was in a d 33, when emperor tiberius decided to lend out the imperial treasure free of interest to all the patrician families. Irving fisher, who was an economist in 19 thirties, has a nice quote in hereabout, interest is human impatience crystallized into a market rate. Low rates that are artificially low push antroperners into that kind of thinking because of the time value of money. The lower the interest rate, the more that we put the emphasis on future goods as opposed to now.

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