Negative Interest Rates

[HeroCat]

Negative interest rates are common in developed market economy. This is real market, so negative interest rates are also everyday in a whole worldwide markets. 

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[Barnabe]

Negative interest rates are common in developed market economy. This is real market, so negative interest rates are also everyday in a whole worldwide markets. 

I don't think this is very common...
I haven't heard of examples except Switzerland and Sweden, do you have more examples ?

[praprata]

Negative interest rates are common in developed market economy. This is real market, so negative interest rates are also everyday in a whole worldwide markets. 

I don't think this is very common...
I haven't heard of examples except Switzerland and Sweden, do you have more examples ?

I heard that Japan got the same 'problem'.
If there was such a thing in my country I would make sure to turn all my money into either stocks or bitcoin.
I will not pay interest to own money.

[tyz]

But also no country can afford increasing interest rates because if so they could not pay their debts back. Any way, it is a doom loop.

It is a short-term measure. I don't think any country can have negative interest rates over a long term.
Beyond a point, the economy stops responding to monetary policy.

[ViralSteve]

injecting money into the economy through quantitative easing and then punishing people for keeping them in bank accounts just spells doom