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Low rates widen wealth inequality via portfolio duration

The guest argued that declining real interest rates from 1980-2020 increased wealth inequality because long-duration assets (owned by the wealthy) saw large capital gains, while the poor, holding mostly deposits with no duration, saw no such gains.

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