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MARK BARNES: The tide needs to turn, and fast
20 August 2019 - 05:10
Negative interest rates are a weird thing. Never mind counter-intuitive, they’re downright confusing.
The truth of it is, though, that negative interest rates are just symptoms of the state we’re in — expressing, as they do, some combination of popular perception and government’s intervention...
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