The end of negative interest rates

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Via FTAlphaville:

Negative rates are the Manchester United of monetary policy. They annoy a lot of people and their glory days as a major force are behind them.

Banks, which’ve struggled to pass the costs they bear on them on to their customers, have always disliked them. Now the tide of opinion is turning within policymaking circles too.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.