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ELI5 Interest Rates - why do interest rates exist in the first place?
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How did civilizations originally justify charging interest on money? How does raising interest rates slow/lower inflation? Do banks lose money if they lend money at less than inflation? What does the term usury mean? Why is interest banned in Islamic finance? How come people don't borrow from low-interest rate countries like Japan and deposit it in high-interest rate countries like Argentina?
... we explain like I'm five
Thank you to the r/explainlikeimfive community and in particular the following users whose questions and comments formed the basis of this discussion: jake-the-dog, victorvanguard, teeehaus, will_fisher, mixduptransistor, smileyguy666, machineteaching, dnbck, jobbo321, sirjelly, pragmatic_idealist, micsidious, glittervector and anagallis_arvensis.
To the ELI5 community that has supported us so far, thanks for all your feedback and comments. Join us on Twitter:
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356 episodes
ELI5 Interest Rates - why do interest rates exist in the first place?
ELI5 Explain Like I'm 5: Bite sized answers to stuff you should know about - in a mini podcast
Manage episode 321213086 series 2542175
How did civilizations originally justify charging interest on money? How does raising interest rates slow/lower inflation? Do banks lose money if they lend money at less than inflation? What does the term usury mean? Why is interest banned in Islamic finance? How come people don't borrow from low-interest rate countries like Japan and deposit it in high-interest rate countries like Argentina?
... we explain like I'm five
Thank you to the r/explainlikeimfive community and in particular the following users whose questions and comments formed the basis of this discussion: jake-the-dog, victorvanguard, teeehaus, will_fisher, mixduptransistor, smileyguy666, machineteaching, dnbck, jobbo321, sirjelly, pragmatic_idealist, micsidious, glittervector and anagallis_arvensis.
To the ELI5 community that has supported us so far, thanks for all your feedback and comments. Join us on Twitter:
https://www.twitter.com/eli5ThePodcast/
or send us an e-mail:
356 episodes
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