CENTRAL banks in the developed world are having a new-found fondness for experimenting with negative interest rate policy despite unknown consequences and what appears to be a chilling effect on financial markets.
Advocates of negative interest rates see the exercise as nothing more than a natural extension of conventional monetary policy.
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