Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Highlight

when Greenspan cut rates for five consecutive years, it caused rates for bank savings, CDs, commercial bonds, and T-bills to drop as well. Now all of a sudden you have a massive number of baby boomers approaching retirement age, and they see that all the billions they have tied up in CDs, money market funds, and other nest-egg