[Smokin' Joe]

So now they’re talking negative interest rates but they know too that that won’t increase consumer spending either because people will draw out cash and hold it rather than not only receive zero interest but negative interest rates.

They have dangled the newfangled convenience gadgets and people aren't buying it. They will make a push for the 'cashless' society, hard, because that will be the only way they can herd the money into accounts where it can be charged maintenance and transaction fees on a percentage basis, which will be how the negative interest rate will be presented.

It is all in what color lipstick is on the pig, not whether there is a pig underneath it.

[Undecided 2012]

Plus when they want to give you a haircut it’ll be just a push of the button.