When Zero’s Too High: Time preference versus central bankers

“Central banking has taken interest rate reduction to its absurd conclusion. If observers thought the ECB had run out of room by holding its deposit rate at zero, Mario Draghi proved he is creative, cutting the ECB’s deposit rate to minus 0.10 percent, making it the first major central bank to institute a negative rate.  Can a central-bank edict force present goods to no longer have a premium over future goods?  Armed with high-powered math and models dancing in their heads, modern central bankers believe they are only limited by their imaginations.  More than half a decade of zero interest rates has not lifted anyone from poverty or created any jobs—it has simply caused more malinvestment.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/when-zeros-too-high

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