From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 25 10:18:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F24137B6C9 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA22278; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:18:16 -0700 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:18:16 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Message-Id: <200005251718.KAA22278@sharmas.dhs.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software In-Reply-To: <000001bfc5e7$6f024440$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <000001bfc5e7$6f024440$021d85d1@youwant.to> Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In muc.lists.freebsd.chat, you wrote: > The term "running to hot" means that money is changing hands very > rapidly. > The risk is allegedly that this will result in inflation. Raising the > interest rate slows this process. > > At least, that's how it's been explained to me. If the inflation is higher than expected, people who lend money for 30 years at low interest rates lose. And that does some pretty bad things to the economy :) -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message