No, it’s not the aging population
When it comes to the impact of demographic changes one of the prime examples economists point to is the natural real rate of interest. Since the 1970s, the natural real rate of interest has steadily declined and is now almost at zero.
Natural real rate of interest in the United States and the UK
Source: Bloomberg
This decline in the natural real rate of in…
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