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by lotsofpulp 238 days ago
This is a little exaggerated, considering ZIRP was 2009 to 2022, 13 years, and came well after Amazon had established its trajectory.

And they did kind of successfully roll out a global logistics network, at a time when no one thought anyone could compete with Walmart. And they became leaders in the cloud computing space.

These aren't trivial accomplishments solely enabled by ZIRP.

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The Yen Carry trade financed US VC since 1999, thanks to ZIRP from the BOJ.

Not Ironic at all that Dot Com immediately followed.