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Why would interest rates rise? They're completely manipulated. If interest rates rising would kill businesses, then they will be manipulated not to rise.


Because the choice will be interest rates or inflation


But it’s been made very clear every major economy wants inflation. Interest rates ain’t never going back up, ask Japan.


Few trillion in national debt. Who cares.

I thought it was quite interesting that 30% of the budget is debt servicing.

If they didn’t have any debt, they wouldn’t need to loan any money.




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