Talk:Discount rate
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[edit] question about changing economic discount rate
Can anyone explain what happens when the discount rate increases, or decreases, and how this effects the Reserve ratio and interest rates in the IS/LM model?
[edit] Changing Math discount to financial discount
I'm wondering if anyone has any problems with my changing the heading from math discount rate to financial discount rate. Eventually, I would like to create a totally seperate article on the topic. cannona 21:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Discount rates in South Africa
Would someone explain to me how does government determine discount rates? I understand that there is correlation between discount rates and interest rates, does this correlation mean causation?
[edit] short term? re-election?
i would like to point out that according to this nice little free pamphlet/comic book that the federal reserve bank of new york, the (united states) federal bank governers are reappointed every 14 years, and staggered in retirement so that only one retires from the position every two years so as to deter the president (of the united states) from making short-term decisions on the appointment of governors.
This fairly-well addresses the 10-year problem, and as for the 200-year problem, we'll all be basking in cosmic radiation because of earth shifting magnetic poles by then anyway, so we might as well be poor mutants.
I would like this, if it is confirmed by some more knowledgable source than myself, to be included in the paragraph concerning how short-sighted and pointless it is to have anything like a discount rate for banks.
