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Re:How This Ends by abirch on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:28PM (#31471812)
> That's very hard to know, but to be clear it's negative real rates that drive the bubbles.

Real rates are usually negative. Real interest rates defined as the Nominal Rate - Inflation. Japan has a negative nominal rate right now.

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Re:How This Ends by jbay808 on Sunday May 22, 2022 @04:16PM (#31472293)
> Real rates are usually negative.

Let me put that a bit more precisely:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-interest-rate/

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