Today's Negative Rates Are the Path to Poverty

Today’s Negative Rates Are the Path to Poverty

Tags: Inflation, Poverty

12/30/2020 Douglas French

Murray Rothbard wrote, “The rate of interest is the price of ‘time.’” It’s safe to say the world’s central banks have manipulated and mispriced what time is worth.

Original Article: “Today’s Negative Rates Are the Path to Poverty“

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