Another problem with negative interest rates is that it overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy. The wealthy have all their money tied up in assets. They can borrow against these assets and if rates are negative why wouldn’t they since they would get paid to do so. So, the poor and middle class would lose money from having savings and the wealthy would get richer by borrowing money. The system is already unfair and policies are only making them worse.

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