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Clearly, you have not read the article.
by rotbart 1mo ago
Clearly, you have not read the article.
- gus_massa 1mo agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve > Conduct monetary policy by influencing market interest rates to achieve the goals of [...] an inflation rate of 2 percent per year on average [...] The idea is to discourage people/companies to store a truckload of cash like Scrooge McDuck. So it's better to invest it or put it in a bank where the bank will not store it but lean it so it's invested. The end result is to encourage the money to flow, as suggested in the article.