https://timeb.news/tags/interest-rates/Recent content in Interest Rates on TimeB.news – Time Economics & Scarcity TheoryHugoenSat, 30 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/time-is-the-rate-rethinking-interest-through-temporal-scarcity/Sat, 30 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/time-is-the-rate-rethinking-interest-through-temporal-scarcity/<h2 id="the-question-that-connects-everything">The Question That Connects Everything</h2> <p>What is interest, really? Is it a reward for waiting, a compensation for risk, or something deeper?</p> <p>Irving Fisher, the great American economist, defined interest as the premium that connects present goods to future goods. But Fisher lacked one thing blockchain now provides: <strong>empirical time-preference data at the transaction level</strong>.</p> <h2 id="the-time-rate-of-interest">The Time Rate of Interest</h2> <p>We propose a refinement: the <strong>time rate of interest</strong> — the premium embedded in an asset purely because of when it exists in time, independent of credit risk or inflation expectations.</p>