Jurriaan Bendien <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not so sure what we should understand the “real interest rate” to mean
> nowadays. It’s normally thought of as the “average” inflation-adjusted cost
> of credit.

when economists talk or right of the "real interest rate," it's
short-hand referring to a variety of different inflation-adjusted
interest rates, which differ in terms of risk, illiquidity, the term
to maturity, and tax treatment.
-- 
Jim Devine /  "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
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