Re:The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened? (pa...
by imtringued on Saturday November 12, 2022 @05:06AM
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The problem is that once rates hit zero people will just hoard cash like Keynes suggested with his liquidity trap. The only "funds" available are short term deposits. Nobody is buying certificates of deposits. When the bank issues a loan without a CD it has to create new liquid money, that is the only way.
The answer is quite simple, just keep going down with interest rates even if they are negative.
That is fully consistent with the loanable funds model.
The answer is quite simple, just keep going down with interest rates even if they are negative. That is fully consistent with the loanable funds model.