Hard Assets In an Age of Negative Interest Rates

https://mises.org/blog/hard-assets-age-negative-interest-rates

Negative interest rates in the US? Just ask the FDIC.

When I was giving presentations on imminent bank bail-ins in 2013, I specifically pointed out inadequate FDIC funds.  Simon Black confirms the numbers today.

https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/negative-interest-rates-in-the-us-just-ask-the-fdic-18723/

Draghi May Enter Twilight Zone Where Fed Fears To Tread

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-26/draghi-may-enter-twilight-zone-where-bernanke-fears-to-tread.html

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is contemplating taking interest rates into a twilight zone shunned by the Federal Reserve. 

While cutting ECB rates may boost confidence, stimulate lending and foster growth, it could also involve reducing the bank’s deposit rate to zero or even lower. Once an obstacle for policy makers because it risks hurting the money markets they’re trying to revive, cutting the deposit rate from 0.25 percent is no longer a taboo, two euro-area central bank officials said on June 15.