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Created: 2025-07-19 14:54:24 UTC

Back then, the U.S. had just come out of WWII. It had racked up massive debt to fight the war.

To help pay for it, the government told the Fed: Keep interest rates low so we can borrow cheaply.

This setup is called financial repression using the central bank to make debt cheaper, even if inflation rises.


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