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And that is precisely the goal of negative interest rates: In a world where supply outstrips demand and too much saving chases too few productive investments, the equilibrium interest rate is low, if not negative.
Indeed, if the advanced economies were to suffer from secular stagnation, a world with negative interest rates on both short- and long-term bonds could become the new normal.
Paradoxically, that implies a period of negative interest rates to induce savers to save less and spend more.
The longer such policies are postponed, the longer we may inhabit the inverted world of negative nominal interest rates.
For others, like the US, future sacrifices are already required, most likely through a combination of higher inflation, austerity, and “financial repression,” as governments seek to impose on savers negative real rates of return.
For many, this was either because producers’ preference for negative stories put them in a bad mood, or because they viewed the reporting as politically slanted and therefore untrustworthy.
On the contrary, some have begun to warn that, in 2038, certain computer software and systems will experience “integer overflow,” causing them to report negative system times and, in turn, to fail.
Reasonable arguments and political optimism can now be turned into negative qualities, the typical marks of a complacent elite, oblivious to the concerns of people who feel that the joke has been on them.
Chief Secretary Sir Donal Tsang calls negative assessments of the territory the product of second-rate minds.
Moreover, a massive public-investment program could be financed at exceptionally low (and, for Germany, conceivably even negative) interest rates.
All forms of monetary stimulus – from quantitative easing to negative interest rates – carry risks.
But government-imposed restrictions on cross-border mobility are generating negative outcomes.
Worse, given the implications of trade for geopolitical and financial-system dynamics, the net consequences of protectionism will likely be negative.
The negative stigma attached to IMF financing is a thing of the past.
Financial markets’ public purpose is defined by their wider impact – their externalities, which can be negative.
No greater negative externality can be envisaged, and there is thus no more compelling justification for broadening the scope of financial-market reform.
Indeed, the real (inflation-corrected) federal funds rate was negative for 31 months, from October 2002 to April 2005.
But a negative by-product of a policy which allows doctors to practice euthanasia is that the taboo against terminating human life diminishes.
But, like the proverbial “rule of three,” the results can be negative or positive.
Given massive global corporate debt and a soaring US stock market – the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio is high by historical standards – one possible trigger for a downturn in the coming years is a negative shock that could send securities tumbling.
Taking him at his word, markets immediately traded the euro up, because investors concluded that, under these circumstances, negative rates and asset purchases would no longer be warranted.
Breaking the negative feedback loop between distressed sovereigns and distressed banks – whereby bank rescues exhaust fiscal resources and make it likely that the next financial institution in trouble will not be able to count on government support – requires ensuring that it will not recur even in extreme circumstances.
For all these differences of opinion, we are unanimous in the belief that, if the Principles of Equality are to be effective in our age, they have to go well beyond the negative anti-discrimination model that was adopted in the US and Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.
Real interest rates for ten-year US Treasuries – which in the 1970s had remained largely under 2%, and temporarily even reached negative terrain – suddenly shot up to about 7% in 1982, and during Reagan’s two terms in office they were about three times as high as under the two preceding administrations.
While the Fed is raising interest rates, Europe and Japan are planning to keep theirs near zero at least until the end of the decade, which will moderate the negative effects of US monetary tightening on asset markets around the world, while European unemployment and Asian overcapacity will delay the upward pressure on prices normally created by a coordinated global expansion.
Indeed, the ongoing fallout is likely to remain very negative.
The danger with funding for lending is negative side effects.
Moreover, with interest rates for large corporations at their lowest level in decades (negative in real terms for the largest, so that savers are in fact paying corporations to borrow their money), the cost of capital is probably not the main reason why they are not investing more in the US.
For two years now, the growth rate of private consumption (measured at constant prices) has been negative: - 1% in 2002, -0.5% in 2003.
In the case of Germany, one has to go back to the early 1980’s to see similar negative numbers in consumption growth.
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