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Comment by Animats

10 hours ago

The current official US inflation rate is 3.4%. So the real interest rate is under 1%.

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marcosdumay  1 hour ago

The most relevant comparison is the short term treasure rates, that is currently at 4% for 3 months.

What means that the US is still paying banks to take loans. They just fixed it so it pays very, very little.

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