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Nominal interest rate, with the inflation subtracted from it.
Nominal interest rate, with the inflation subtracted from it.
<syntaxhighlight lang="yaml">
interest_rate  = 5%/yr
inflation_rate = 2%/yr
</syntaxhighlight>


<math>
<math>
\frac
\text{real-interest-rate} = \frac
   {1 + \text{nominal-interest-rate}}
   {1 + \text{nominal-interest-rate}}
   {1 + \text{inflation-rate}}
   {1 + \text{inflation-rate}}

Revision as of 02:30, 2 November 2021

Overview

TODO:

how are interest rates set?

Terminology

yield:
return:

nominal:
real:
effective:

Rate Types

Nominal Interest Rate

nominal_rate = 5%
5$ interest for each 100$
  • Does not account for inflation

Real Interest Rate

Nominal interest rate, with the inflation subtracted from it.

Effective Interest Rate

Annual Interest Rate