Part II: The Consequences of Negative Rates

30th July 2019 Summary In Part I, we looked at how monetary policy aimed at mitigating recessions boosts current demand by borrowing from the future. The result has been a continuous rise in nominal debt, which, absent rare bouts of intense inflation, has locked economies into a downward trend in interest rates. While most investors […]

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