Low-Interest Rate Environment Has Not Boosted Business Investment

Low-Interest Rate Environment is meant to spur economic activity, but inflation remains anemic in most advanced economies and a prolonged period of low-interest rates has introduced potentially destabilizing financial distortions that’s the summary of a presentation from Moody’s Investors Service, which considers the low-interest rate environment and its impact on credit.

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