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Sub-1% Interest Rates Until 2030?

WASHINGTON, DC—In this EXCLUSIVE column, our source says that as long as the US, Western Europe, and nearly every other developed nation is aging—reshaping the fundamental composition of our society—interest rates will remain inordinately, mind-bogglingly low.

By Natalie Dolce | Updated on March 16, 2015

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WASHINGTON, DC—“Every aging society in the world has seen an accompanying decline in interest rates. From Japan to the US to Western Europe, there is a consistent pattern: a graying population creates a liquidity trap.” That is according to Ben Miller, a founder of locally based real estate crowdfunding and investment platform, Fundrise. In each instance, Miller says, the government responds to an economic crisis by lowering interest rates and then “finds themselves quagmired in sluggish growth, diminishing labor participation, and near-zero inflation rates.”

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