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Understanding Negative Interest Rates (once again)

 

Is it just me? I must be missing something

Time to start paying attention to what negative interest rates really mean:  (Just ask Larry Fink)

Screen Shot 2016-04-12 at 10.07.14 PMThe financial press is full of articles on the dangers of this policy. These unconventional moves have provoked a lot of criticism, especially from the banking community who fear a strangulation of normal banking activities. A lot has been written about the dangers that NIR pose to the stability of banks and to the possible harm to savers and investors alike. This article is an attempt to put the whole question of NIR into a more balanced perspective. To begin with, it is important to have some background to why and how NIRs have come to characterize so much of government debt

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