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
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
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.