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As interest rates in the USA, Europe and Japan continue to go down, maybe more people will look for alternatives like precious metals and
BTC. In much of Europe, YOU have to pay the BANKS to hold your money for you (Negative Interest Rate Policy). Might as well just hold CA$H instead, at least you would not lose anything (except to inflation).
But, will zero or negative interest rates likely mean that more people will buy gold or Bitcoin?
Zero Hedge has been following this pretty well, and has a current article up:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-18/why-zirpnirp-killing-fractional-reserve-banking-forcing-deposits-gold"We ZIRP-ed some folks..."