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favored the second possibility.
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But anyway, it's collateral that they're putting up for the loan.
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So there's collateral.
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So now what we found is that Shakespeare has understood the
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impatience theory of interest.
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You've got an impatient borrower and a patient lender,
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and it's the tradeoff between patience and impatience which is
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going to decide what the rate of interest is.
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So that's already Irving Fisher's biggest message.
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And then the second thing he's noticed,
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which Irving Fisher didn't notice at all,
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and this is going to be a large part of the rest of the course,