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To: abigkahuna

Negative interest rates is Capitalism eating its seed corn.

The days of individuals, families or groups saving up to start a business is going to get much harder when your savings are worth less each day.


12 posted on 02/10/2016 10:44:39 PM PST by crusher2013 (Liberalism is Aristocracy masquerading as equality)
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To: crusher2013

But banks charging you interest for something that they created out of thin air with no backing whatsoever is not an issue?


17 posted on 02/10/2016 10:49:46 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: crusher2013

We’ve had effectively negative interest rates for a while, with returns being less than inflation.


32 posted on 02/11/2016 12:32:43 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: crusher2013
"Negative interest rates is Capitalism eating its seed corn."

How else they gonna fuel those other, protected interest rates?


65 posted on 02/11/2016 4:47:45 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Own it.)
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To: crusher2013
Negative interest rates is Capitalism eating its seed corn.

Exactly. All you see in front of you vanishes.

67 posted on 02/11/2016 4:50:03 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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