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Visualizing the 700-Year Fall of Interest Rates
Could interest rates enter negative territory permanently? This chart plots trend data over 700 years, showing that it could be a possibility.
✒ Bad news for fixed income investors: global real interest rates have experienced an average annual decline of -1.96 bps throughout the past eight centuries.