You mean like ... a mortgage or other loan?
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Yeah, debt is how you rent money, and inflation favors debtor while deflation favors creditor... but feels like there ought to be more to it
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You know Jeremy Rifkin's "Age of Access"?
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I've read some rifkin, but not that one... tldr?
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In general you rent vs buy if: (1) oversupply for non-financial reasons (yachts, private jets) (2) you might destroy if you own (principal / agent problems in companies) (3) operating efficiently requires scale & expertise (datacenter) (4) saving $ takes time (house)
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Wasn't Quantitative easing the Fed basically telling banks to rent large pools of money so that they in turn could rent more easily?https://youtu.be/ohKQP_wSO9k
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Things that are also rented money: - A gift card with an expiration date - Foreign currency that you have no intention of converting back to your home currency at the end of your trip - Drink tickets purchased in advance, redeemable only on this night at this party
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Large scale real estate basically works like this afaik
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In practice many retail businesses work like this too.
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Many small businesses pay general operating expenses (including salary) from short term loans, then pay them back once gigs are done and their clients pay. This is why credit crunches hurt so bad.
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