I'm wondering whether shifting the benchmark rate is a matter of bowing to the inevitable, given that effective interest rates have been creeping up. We are asked to believe that interest rates are decreed, rather than determined by objective economic phenomena. Or is the decreed interest rate a sufficient economic phenomenon, insofar as it is accompanied by a promise of unlimited liquidity...?

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