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    Real interest rates have rapidly increased recently as monetary policy has tightened in response to higher inflation. Whether this uptick is temporary or partly reflects structural factors is an important question for policymakers. Since the mid-1980s, real interest rates at all maturities and across most advanced economies have been steadily declining. Such long-run changes in real rates likely reflect a decline in the natural rate, which is the real interest rate that would keep inflation at target and the economy operating at full employment–neither expansionary nor contractionary. The natural rate is a ... (full story)

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And when it stops raining, the water levels in lakes and rivers will drop ! What a useless article.
Well atleast some honesty in the article if you read through it: " as higher energy prices (reflecting a combination of taxes and regulations)"

This is what we call institutional inflation, i.e the more rules and laws that has to be uphold by the public the more expensive their services and goods become. Thus laws and regulations is a big part of what drives inflation. Not crazy rich consumers.

Imagine all the paperwork which is required to clean a floor nowadays with all the safety protocols, labour control, administrative practices required by law, environmentally sustainable chemicals and approved gear etc etc etc...
To do something as simple as cleaning a floor for profit you basically need the A-team of bureaucracy, and they dont work for free.
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