this is amply elaborated in Mises' book Human Action by the way

savings are an essential part of a healthy economy and with fiat money there is none, and so it's brittle and unstable, and ultimately unproductive

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I'm well aware.

How an individual chooses to use their hard-money savings is up to them, including loaning it to others with an agreed-upon interest rate in a free-banking system.

Interest payments are merely the price of the "service" of acquiring access to capital (real, saved, hard money) sooner rather than later.