{"id":1396,"date":"2016-02-23T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T20:11:40","slug":"notes-from-the-field-whats-so-negative-or-positive-about-negative-interest-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/2016\/02\/23\/notes-from-the-field-whats-so-negative-or-positive-about-negative-interest-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTES FROM THE FIELD: What\u2019s So Negative (or Positive!) About Negative Interest Rates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-982\" src=\"http:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-Logo_Final.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cropped-Logo_Final.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With most of the world\u2019s economies in the doldrums, the central banks of many countries have instituted, or are considering instituting, a policy of negative interest rates. Even Fed chief Janet Yellen, of the US Federal Reserve, has said that the Fed is looking at the possibility of using negative interest rates. Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">New York Times<\/a> and search for the article entitled <em>Negative 0.5% Interest Rate: Why People Are Paying to Save<\/em>. This article discusses what negative interest rates are, why central banks are using them, and the pros and cons of this new tool of monetary policy. Please click on the following links for two articles that explain a bit more about interest rates in general, and low to negative interest rates, in particular: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B0RaSt9qLgiNU2gtNzRuOWNSNmM\">Interest Rate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B0RaSt9qLgiNcnpkZ3h6Vi1wNGM\">Zero Interest Rate Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With most of the world\u2019s economies in the doldrums, the central banks of many countries have instituted, or are considering instituting, a policy of negative interest rates. Even Fed chief Janet Yellen, of the US Federal Reserve, has said that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/2016\/02\/23\/notes-from-the-field-whats-so-negative-or-positive-about-negative-interest-rates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivwealthreport.com\/Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}