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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

Allen Lane £25

For those who work in finance or markets, the most important price – the biggest number of all – is the interest rate the United States Federal Government pays to borrow.

Currently about 3 per cent, it was depressed to a record low during COVID, but was five times that level in living memory, soon after the Iranian Revolution in 1980.

The reason this number is so important is that it is the risk-free

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