In the past, interest was known as return on savings.

Die liberale Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft legte die Grundlage für unseren heutigen Wohlstand.

Anyone who would have dared to venture an outlook on the new decade at the end of 2009 would very probably have done so under the impression of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/08 and the resulting Great Recession of 2008/09.