zero-interest-rate policy Concepts

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words

—people like Vivek Ramaswamy. Coming up professionally in the years after the Great Financial Crisis, I learned about who had gotten rich under ZIRP—the zero-interest-rate policy years that ran from about 2008 to 2021, when money was cheap and easy to borrow in fantastical quantities. And I learned about the failure

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political order than the one that supplied their wealth. This change in mindset was also powered by something of a historical economic one-off: the zero-interest-rate policy (ZIRP) era, when interest rates remained for many years close to zero. It minted numerous millionaires and billionaires in tech and finance, even when some

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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

command.” His own guidelines led Kalanick to conclude that he would be “celibate on this trip,” adding the hashtag “#FML.” In a time of ZIRP (zero-interest-rate policy), Uber leveraged cheap capital to subsidize rides, undercutting traditional taxis and capturing a massive user base. The company hemorrhaged money on every ride but promised

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post-pandemic era. Airbnb cofounder Brian Chesky quipped, “It feels like we were in a nightclub and the lights just turned on.” The era of zero-interest-rate policy—which fueled a VC-backed gold rush—had ended, leaving start-ups scrambling for capital. While Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos was serving an eleven-year

Men Without Work

by Nicholas Eberstadt · 4 Sep 2016 · 126pp · 37,081 words

Why Wall Street Matters

by William D. Cohan · 27 Feb 2017 · 113pp · 37,885 words

you tried to get a loan or a mortgage lately? It’s not very easy, even for Ben Bernanke, the architect of the Fed’s “zero-interest-rate policy” that has kept interest rates as low as they have ever been in our nation’s history. In 2014, the newly private citizen Bernanke could

Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire

by Bruce Nussbaum · 5 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 101,761 words

World Report, April 30, 2012, accessed September 14, 2012, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/ economic-intelligence/2012/04/30/the-downside-of-the-feds-zero-interest-rate-policy. 231 the volatility of the markets: Tami Luhby, “Credit Freeze and Your Paycheck,” CNN Money, September 28, 2008, accessed September 14, 2012, http://money.cnn

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow · 6 Oct 2025 · 313pp · 94,415 words

this moment that allowed this contagion to spread so fast and so far? Some will tell you that this is just the end of the zero interest rate policy (ZIRP), which followed on from the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, when central bankers around the world cut interest rates to zero (at times even

Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy

by Daniel Gross · 7 May 2012 · 391pp · 97,018 words

on a regime of interest rate cuts, stimulus measures, an expansion of bank deposit insurance, a partial nationalization of failed institutions, bank capital injections, a zero-interest-rate policy, quantitative easing, and still more stimulus. The United States, he said, had essentially undertaken the same response, with one significant difference: speed. It took the

How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--And What It Really Means

by John Lanchester · 5 Oct 2014 · 261pp · 86,905 words

and yuan is like pound. In practice, Mandarin-speaking Chinese tend to use the colloquial kuai, roughly the same as the American “buck.” zirp A zero-interest-rate policy, in which a government or central bank holds interest rates at zero. This effectively reduces the cost of borrowing to nothing, and is a desperate

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

by Kariappa Bheemaiah · 26 Feb 2017 · 492pp · 118,882 words

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It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

by Gregg Easterbrook · 20 Feb 2018 · 424pp · 119,679 words

. That scary number for 2047 assumes interest rates stay low, and thus the government can borrow at low cost. The Federal Reserve cleaved to ZIRP—zero-interest-rate policy—for the entire Obama presidency. Had, under Obama, the price of Treasury notes been at the postwar average, his two terms would have added not