Only Japan has a positive real interest rate among the G-7 and that rate is barely above zero.

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The U.S. dollar looks further than ever from paying a positive real rate of interest, leaving both investors and merchants to price scarce resources in an ever-depreciating, ever-more generously supplied currency.

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Many developing economies also have positive real interest rates, meaning that you can earn a return on their bonds over and above the rate of inflation.

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