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> artificial low rates What do you mean by artificial here?

• cudgy 5y ago
  For example, Interest rates are so low that the traditional alternatives of stock investments are no longer present. Traditionally, a bond would include a rate that is beyond inflation. Nowadays, government bonds return rates below inflation. This is artificially low and creates a bubble in the stock market (and other assets like real estate) since the traditional option to put money in bonds has been artificially devalued.
• danuker 5y ago
  Rates depressed by the central bank buying everything deemed "safe". Very few "natural" investors (as opposed to "artificial" central banks) would accept a 0.25% yearly return on their capital. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate