▲ | nr378 7 days ago | |
Interest rates set the exchange rate between future cashflows (i.e. assets) and cash today. Lower interest rates mean higher asset values, higher interest rates mean lower asset values. Higher asset values generally disproportionately benefit those that own assets (wealthy people) over those that don't (average people). Of course, this is just one way that interest rates affect the economy, and it's important to bear in mind that lower interest rates can also stimulate investment which help to create jobs for average people as well. | ||
▲ | tharmas 7 days ago | parent [-] | |
> it's important to bear in mind that lower interest rates can also stimulate investment which help to create jobs for average people as well. Precisely! Yet the big problem in the Anglosphere is that most of that money has been invested in asset accumulation, namely housing, causing a massive housing crisis in these countries. |