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by vkou 2028 days ago
Because in addition to funding moonshot project plays, low interest rates also fund a lot of really stupid investments that should never have been funded, and that go belly-up at the first sign of a tightening fiscal market.

When too many of those really stupid investments go belly up at once, it's called a bubble popping, and it is catastrophic to the economy.