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> I have this theory that there's institutional money burning a hole in various institution's collective pockets.

That was very much the case before the Fed started raising interest rates.

The term "zero interest rate phenomenon" was created to describe it.

Now that rates are up, people sitting on piles of money can just put it to work in more traditional lending (e.g. buying bonds) instead of needing to look around for weird startups to put it in.




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