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		abirch on May 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How This Ends > That's very hard to know, but to be clear it's negative real rates that drive the bubbles. Real rates are usually negative. Real interest rates defined as the Nominal Rate - Inflation. Japan has a negative nominal rate right now.

jbay808 on May 22, 2022 [–]

> Real rates are usually negative.

Let me put that a bit more precisely:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-interest-rate/

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