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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (62393)11/6/2001 3:46:33 PM
From: AK2004Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 275872
 
Ten
you think that that you are joking but it did happened in a number of countries before. Negative interest rate, while very rare, is normal .....
Regards
-Albert



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (62393)11/6/2001 4:30:59 PM
From: dale_laroyRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
>Pay people to borrow money! It's so obvious!<

Hardly, the Fed doesn't lend money to people, it lends money to banks. Still, if they pay banks to borrow money, the banks might lower their interest rates to people significantly. More likely, the banks would simply borrow money to buy stocks.