Question: how can the governement set the interest rate for loans that are provided not by them but by private institutions? How do they convince the private company to set those interest rates? Moreover, how can they determine the yield? Isn't the yield an end figure and not, like interest rates, an input figure?

We have a student loan program here, it's entirely governement-operated though.

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