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by iakh 1078 days ago
interest rates have been falling for over 700 years [1]. I wouldn't bet against that over a single unprecedented year

1. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2020/eight-cen...

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Isn't this cherry picking data?
It is more than a single year and this happened during the 1970’s and 1980’s stagflation era.

Of course worse inflationary crises have happened in Western history and while they returned on a large enough time scale that really didn’t matter all to much for all the poor citizens for whom their hard earned wealth was nukes from orbit.