• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ya, the whole article read as: Investors are addicted to cheap money.
    Of course banks and investors want lower interest rates, that's how they make money. When rates are higher, fewer people take on debt, which means less money for the banks. And investors have higher borrowing costs, so they make less money. Sadly, this also sucks for the average person, as our credit is also more expensive. However, we can take a look over at Turkiye for the counter-factual plan. Erdogan was nice enough to run an economic experiment for the world on what happens when you cut interests rates during inflation. The result of that experiment has been rather insane inflation… But hey, it got him re-elected. So, that was nice (for him).

    Ultimately, higher interest rates are kinda needed and probably here for a while.