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seuraughty · 2024-01-11 15:49:28

I imagine they’re just doing their best to adapt to a non-zero interest rate world.

vhdI27 | karma 3 | avg karma 1.5 · | 2023-05-31 22:05:32

or maybe we are past the excess of a 0% interest rate environment and people are now expected to pay for shit.

j7ake | karma 3670 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2024-03-27 23:22:57

Seems to correspond to the high interest rate environment.

mixmastamyk | karma 12554 | avg karma 1.22 · | 2021-11-24 19:54:25

Yes, it’s their idea to mitigate high interest rates.

jbay808 | karma 7260 | avg karma 3.72 · | 2022-03-11 00:51:26

It's no coincidence that it's coming up at a time when interest rates hit zero.

Apocryphon | karma 19248 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2021-04-02 15:59:30+00:00

Seems like all of this is just a by-product of near-zero interest rates policy:

https://themargins.substack.com/p/zirp-explains-the-world

Until interest rates go up, capital gonna chase yield.

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photonbeam | karma 1038 | avg karma 2.6 · | 2023-11-19 11:35:21

Interest rates being near zero

AzzieElbab | karma 1950 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2023-08-13 08:37:31

These are the games rational ppl play when interest rates are close to 0. Things are changing.

jryan49 | karma 969 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2019-09-03 11:54:59+00:00

They're keeping the rates low to prop up business borrowing and the stock market it seems.

Xeoncross | karma 4298 | avg karma 3.83 · | 2023-03-11 20:42:40

So weird to think that near-zero interest rates are the best you can do for the next 10 years. I'm pretty sure everyone way saying "lock in this low interest rate before they go up again!"

SilasX | karma 17521 | avg karma 2.12 · | 2020-08-28 01:59:31+00:00

Aren’t interest rates already at zero?

jyounker | karma 709 | avg karma 2.37 · | 2020-01-16 17:50:55

We've been trying that for a good chunk of the last decade. That's why interest rates have gone to near zero, and in some places negative. It's not working so well.

api | karma 31631 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2024-02-04 17:00:35

We are no longer under zero interest rates. Things have to actually be profitable.

nextworddev | karma 1160 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2024-05-01 15:36:51

It’s called high interest rate environment

mikeg8 | karma 1566 | avg karma 2.85 · | 2022-02-17 10:37:51

No, they’re buying them up because rates are so low it costs them little to borrow/buy.

keeganpoppen | karma 537 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2020-05-22 01:36:21

has that been happening? i guess so, in some sense, because the interest rate is "0"...

fullspectrumdev | karma 1331 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2024-01-12 00:51:07

I think some people haven’t quite realised that the low interest rate days are gone.

skellera | karma 1262 | avg karma 3.15 · | 2018-02-22 03:06:26+00:00

With interest rates being so low, they don’t have that either. What are they going to do? Lower it below zero? Just wondering how high they can get it before the next recession.

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2017-06-03 17:50:25+00:00

It's mostly a function of the general interest rates.

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2016-06-15 06:56:25

It's all about the interest rates.