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>But it has serious long term effects which are hard to understand as it’s so complex. This paper attempts to study it: https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt180
by logicchains 6y ago
>But it has serious long term effects which are hard to understand as it’s so complex.
This paper attempts to study it: https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1809g.pdf https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1809g.pdf, and found that artificially low interest rates create zombie firms that could not survive without such low rates, and "that zombies weigh on economic performance because they are less productive and because their presence lowers investment in and employment at more productive firms.".
- an_opabinia 6y agoWould you rather the funding for Palantir sit around and do nothing, or pay real human beings? What do you think all those expenses are? Someone else’s income.
- lowdose 6y agoThis is a false dichotomy, the point was that we should scale back all the QE shenanigans to prevent these second order effects.