Negative Interest Rates Impact

The hope negative interest rate to significantly stimulate economies hasn't been realized.  Instead, negative interest rates has increase investments in non productive assets, e.g. real estate, stocks, and not into investments that increase GDP.   In addition, exiting from a low interest rate policy is difficult due to exchange rate impacts that strengthen the local currency.

Here is an article from The Financial Times (subscription my be required to view) discussing the situation with Sweden.

Here is an article from the World Economic Forum discussing the effectiveness and impacts of negative interest rates.

In either case, it appears that negative interest rates and the exit may lead to an undesirable economic ending.

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