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Welcome back to Nonfiction Insights! 4,000 years ago, Mesopotamian farmers understood something modern central banks have forgotten: Interest is the price of time.

In this video, we use the Feynman Learning Technique to decode The Price of Time by Edward Chancellor. We analyze how the policy of "free money" has jammed the economy's most important signal, leading to a massive transfer of wealth from savers to the rich.

Key Concepts Covered:

🎯 Interest as Time Travel Interest is the reward for patience. When rates hit zero, the incentive to save disappears, forcing everyone to consume or speculate today instead of building for the future.

📻 "Signal Jamming" The interest rate is the economy's GPS. When central banks artificially suppress it, they scramble the signal, causing investors to fund bad ideas (malinvestment) like subsidizing unprofitable tech companies for years.

🔥 The Arsonist & The Fireman A perfect metaphor for the Fed: They create the fire (bubbles) with cheap money, then rush in to "save" the economy with... even more cheap money.

🧟 The Zombie Economy Low rates keep "dead" companies alive by allowing them to borrow cheaply just to pay interest. This traps capital and blocks resources from flowing to productive new businesses.

🎈 The Everything Bubble From stocks to vintage cars, cheap money inflated every asset class, enriching the wealthy while eroding the savings of the middle class through financial repression.

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