How Long (Will Interest Rates Stay Low)?
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How Long (Will Interest Rates Stay Low)?
by Merle Hazard
(c) 2016
Chorus 1
How long (how long) will interest rates stay low?
That’s the question, the whole world wants to know
How long (how long) will interest rates stay low?
It seems like if they’re going up, they’re going pretty slow
Verse 1
Our country’s central bank is really scared, that’s plain to see
When everything is leveraged, raising rates is misery
But keeping rates too low, too long, would cause us pain and sorrow
There is no easy option in a land of constant borrow
Chorus 2
How long (how long) will interest rates stay low?
That’s the question, the whole world wants to know
How long (how long) will borrowing be free?
How long will we be subsidized by savers and retirees?
Verse 2
Central banks around the world, not only in the States
Are each at work on lengthy slumps, their countries’ tragic fates
Legislatures will not spend to give sufficient boost
Lower interest rates are all that’s left to get their countries juiced
Chorus 3
How long (how long) will interest rates stay low?
If you could predict it, you could make a lot of dough
How long (how long) will interest rates stay depressed?
The answer...is anybody’s guess
Verse 3
Some say low rates are symptomatic, rather than the cure
I have a hunch they're right. I can’t say I am sure.
But recovery has been long and slow, the crisis wounds are deep
So until we see inflation, money’s likely to be cheap
Chorus 4
Instrumental solos
Verse 4
Capital’s abundant, money’s not in short supply
China holds our Treas’ry bonds, although I wonder why
Start-ups happen in the cloud, few people are employed
If something could push rates back up, I’d be overjoyed
Chorus 5
How long (how long) will interest rates stay low?
That’s the question, the whole world wants to know
How long (how long) ‘til we really start to grow?
Interest rates are goin’ up, but they’re go-in’...pret-ty…slow....
The song has been featured on the PBS NewsHour, in a report by Paul Solman:
www.pbs.org/new....
The answer to this six year old question of "how long will interest rates stay low" turned out to be 5 years.
Who else is here in 2023 and wonders what ole Merle Hazard thinks of interest rates today?
I'd like to forward this, but my economics profs are all too young to remember Hee Haw.
Send it to Jonny 5 instead.
Yarite. Being too young is the only reason why Econ profs would be unaware of Hee Haw.
Adam Smith would note the invisible mandolin
Merle was holding it like most country lead singers hold but do not play their box top guitars.
;^)
That was a smooth one-point increase at 2:50
+swdhj I know it's been a looong week, because this comment made me laugh out loud.
lol I don't get it? taking off the hat?
The key change
@@JulianUSA They went up a whole step
Merle Hazard is great! Merle combines the two things Nashville does best: money and country music.
Merle is working up to releasing the one on hyper inflation in the Weimar Republic.
HAHAHAH I am wonder the same
"A land of constant borrow" haha
Relevant once again!
If interest rates ever go up again they will go back down shortly after
Good God, this song made my morning.
Here we go AGAIN!! Let's hear some more of that Yellin.
A true banger/relic of the 2010s 🤌
You've just described what Japan's been going through over the past 20-30 years!
🤣 Outstanding. Just saw this song from Krugman's link on NYT. Now do another one on the bailout of the Silicon Valley Bank and Moral Hazard.
Now do one about Hegelian dialect
Bimnjo Blongv YES
Dialectic?
@@kaemonbonet4931 Still just a fancy word for Hegel arguing with his own hand in a sock. No one knows how to fiercely annihilate an epistemic straw man like Hegel does.
This is quite possibly the coolest thing ever.
So good
Merle you are a legend
This is the funniest shit I've seen in a long time.
Now we know
YES.
From the Austrian school of hoedown. Friedrich Hayek sends his applause from the grave.
Great.
The answer is 11 months 3 weeks and 4 days.
Update: interest rates went up about 2022-23
Follow up on this?
I think that question has just been answered.
this hitting diff in 2024.
Allison just trucks every solo. dang.
Be careful what you wish for
Is that UFC Champion Jon "Bones" Jones in the front row?
you made my day!
Well you're going to have to ask yellin' 😂😂😂
if only our central bankers had listened to this song when it came out!
TH-cam is great
Until Google bought them.
This is amazing!
"if something could push rates back up, I'd be overjoyed"
You know, you say that....
Yee ha ole buckaroos! This is hilarious! Merle your my new favorite artist! Where can i buy your music?!
HeeHaw😢😮😅😂🤟😜💯⁉️‼️
great song :D
This is great! :-)
well
I think we have the answer now.
1k+ likes... 9 dislikes. Literally the highest like to dislike ratio I ever seen!
Probably all 9 dislikes are from alts of Socialist Grumpy Cat. "No cat can has cheeseburger until all cat can has cheeseburger."
I think we know the answer
We need a new song for the current moment... combining the words asset prices, inflation, quantitative easing, bitcoin, Raoul Pal, Michael Saylor and playfully bashing on Tesla and Jeremy Schiff. .
Who's here in 2022 wondering if he's right about interest rates and inflation?????
Why would he be overjoyed to see interest rates go up? Is Merle Hazard a potential lender?
Maybe he likes antifragility
Hee haw!
About this long.
HEE-HAW!!!
not much longer lol
Weird flex but ok
Too Dang long!