Bernanke has pledged to keep lending at negative interest rates for the next two years.
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This is the logical explanation for the negative interest rates on 90-day T-bills that have been seen recently.
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Back in the 1970s they charged foreigners a fee for having a bank account, in effect imposing a negative interest rate.
Now, in the doldrums, those peripheral countries need negative interest rates (not possible as such, but there are monetary means of getting to a similar result).
There's been more "noise" in recent debates about the Bank of England's policy, with all the talk about nominal income targeting, negative interest rates, and other radical steps.
These firms have in effect been paying negative interest on their loans, says Mr Mikuni, because they have had to repay only part of their debt, thanks to waivers from the banks.
If the recovery falters, the BoJ could go further, exploring the use of negative interest rates on bank balances, which would encourage banks to lend money rather than hoarding it at the central bank.
That said, there is an expectation that the European Central Bank will start to penalise banks for holding money on deposit with it, rather than using that cash to make loans, by charging negative interest rates for deposits.
Germany sold 4.17 billion euros of negative interest rate two-year German bonds drew the strongest demand since a January sale of a similar maturity as investors sought new places to hide their money, even if it means losing some of it.
Deutsche Bank says the main risk to gold prices would be a turn in the U.S. interest-rate cycle and end to negative real interest rates.
Deflation robs a central bank of its ability to stimulate spending using negative real interest rates.
Further, an environment of low and negative real interest rates tends to support gold, Tremblay said.
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Negative real interest rates occur when the inflationary rate, or CPI, is greater than the current interest rate.
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With negative real interest rates, worldwide currency debasement, and inflation being the real threat ultimately, gold still remains attractive.
Some suggest the Swiss ought to announce a peg to the euro or engineer a negative nominal interest rate.
Major investment banks overinvested in those securities, further misled by negative real interest rates into massive overleveraging, went bust.
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Savers and pension funds will continue to suffer under negative real interest rates.
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What do you get when you mix negative real interest rates with stimulative money supply efforts by global central banks?
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In our negative real interest rate environment, the market has begun to put a premium on the certainty of income.
Low or negative real interest rates on deposits, including saving accounts, provides a low-cost source of funding for state-owned banks.
Controls on access to dollars and negative real interest rates make it hard for the middle class to travel or save.
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Negative real interest rates and strong money supply growth are two key factors of what I refer to as the Fear Trade.
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Such is the power of fear: it is better to earn negative real interest and preserve capital than to lose the capital altogether.
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For now that means negative real interest rates of about 0.5%.
In this negative real interest rate environment, it is best to focus on assets that will stand to benefit, such as dividend paying large cap equities.
Local consumers bear most of the cost, although some will fall on taxpayers now that the government is offering loans to exporters at negative real interest rates.
Most commentators remain bullish on gold and silver into 2012, given a climate of negative real interest rates, high equity risk premiums and continued buying by emerging-market central banks.
The closer inflation is to zero, the harder it is to get the negative real interest rates often necessary in a recession, since nominal rates cannot go below zero.
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Faced with negative real interest rates, rapidly rising inflation, and a chronically weak dollar, foreign holders of US Treasury debt and other dollar-denominated holdings may begin to lose their nerve.
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