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Take our money, please!

Posted by linkmeister on 23 July 2012, 12:14 pm

(Click to enlarge) That’s from Professor Krugman’s blog post today entitled Free Money. It shows the interest rate the U.S. government pays on bonds that are indexed to inflation. See those minus signs? Those indicate that investors are willing to pay the US government to borrow money from them. It’s not until you get to …

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