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The life and possible death of low interest rates

2023-04-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·25m 56s ·by NPR
The life and possible death of low interest rates
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About this episode

Right now, the economy is running hot. Inflation is high, and central banks are pushing up interest rates to fight it. But before the pandemic, economies around the world were stuck in a different rut: low inflation, low interest rates, low growth. In 2013, Larry Summers unearthed an old term from t