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To: Moonman62; DannyTN
It’s also better than an economy that stops growing and producing what we need.

A damaged economy is what causes harmful inflation as evidenced by countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Iran.

If governments are selling bonds that produce negative yields, I would say we are already have a damaged economy.

Governments are printing money and bonds have negative yields, how is this possible? Where is all of the funny money going?

36 posted on 04/08/2020 6:18:43 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac

You ignored my previous answer on negative yields:

It’s not guaranteed. Rates can go lower and the bond will go up in price.


38 posted on 04/08/2020 6:24:43 AM PDT by Moonman62 (http://www.freerepublic.com/~moonman62/)
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To: Pontiac
If governments are selling bonds that produce negative yields, I would say we are already have a damaged economy.

Bonds don't have negative rates. If they did nobody would buy them. Negative interest rates are applied to deposits that banks have with the central bank. The purpose is to provide an incentive to banks to use that money to lend rather than have it on deposit.

55 posted on 04/08/2020 2:48:22 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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