Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest: How Low Interest Rates Are Bad For Everyone (Except Central Bankers)

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Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest: How Low Interest Rates Are Bad For Everyone (Except Central Bankers)

Andrew Keen

Aug 18, 2022

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Edward Chancellor, author of The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest.

Edward Chancellor is the author of Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” and the specialist report Crunch-Time for Credit?, a prescient analysis of the credit boom in the US and UK. Chancellor has also edited two investment books, Capital Account and Capital Returns. An award-winning financial journalist, Chancellor is currently a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, and has contributed to many other publications, including the Wall Street Journal, MoneyWeek, New York Review of Books, and Financial Times.

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