Discount rate

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And the discount rate is this.

The present value would be if you discount this by some discount rate.

You can tweak that discount rate and make a few assumptions in discount rate and pretty much assume anything.

We have agreed on the rate of discount.

We have agreed on the rate of discount.

The discount rate assumption is everything in finance.

Then to discount money in the future to the present, we divide it by 1 plus the discount rate so this is a 5 discount rate.

What happens if I assume a 2 discount rate?

But right now, for simplification, we're assuming a risk free discount rate.

So the same thing is true when you're doing a discount rate.

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark discount rate to an 18 year low.

So it benefited the most by decreasing the discount rate, the 1.02 squared.

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35 divided by and it's 2 years out, so we discount by our discount rate twice so it's divided by 1.05 squared.

What is the present value of these if I assume a 2 risk free rate, or a 2 discount rate?

Well, when you lower the interest rate, the terms that are using that discount rate the most, benefit the most.

But you can almost justify any present value, by picking the right discount rate.

The Bank of Japan lowered its discount rate by half a percentage point Monday, bringing the key lending rate to 4.5 .

And this discount rate, this is where all of the fudge factor occurs in finance.

And actually the whole topic of, how do you decide on the right discount rate?

But in scenario one, because we used a 5 discount rate for all you could say, I don't want to use fancy words but for all durations out we used a 5 discount rate.

So it almost choice number one was the best when we had a 5 discount rate.

Now at a 2 discount rate, choice number two is all of a sudden the best.

So you want to divide it by, let's say we use 11 as a discount rate.

So we take 110, and we're going to use the two year rate, and discount twice.

But then if the discount rate were to change if we were to change our assumption.

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Plus 35 divided by the two year rate but this is an annual rate, so you have to discount it twice divided by 1.05 squared.

Because if it's a year from now, you'd have to discount it by the one year interest rate.

Another way to kind of just talk about this is to get the present value of 110 a year from now, we discount the value by a discount rate.

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The present value of this is it increased by 6 just by the discount rate going down by 3 .

It has the same learning rate, Alpha, and the same discount factor, Gamma and we just start applying that.

And maybe I'll actually do that in the next video, just to show you how important the discount rate is.

Then we get the Q value of 100 minus the Q value of zero, and the discount rate is 90.

In this situation, you take your payment, you discount it by your monthly interest rate, you get the loan amount.

Some stores discount the price.

You should discount his story.

Perhaps only at a discount.

But the big learning from this is how dependent the present value of future payments are on your discount rate assumption.

So actually, most of finance, and most of portfolio theory, and modern finance, is based on figuring out that discount rate.

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