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The situation where people are willing to hold any amount of money at a very low interest rate is called?

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At a very low rate of interest, bond prices are at a maximum and everyone expects them to fall, so people prefer to hold all wealth as money. Speculative demand for money becomes infinitely elastic. This situation is called the liquidity trap.

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