Steve Randy Waldman writes the finance and economics blog Interfluidity. In recent writings Waldman has put forward some incisive thoughts on negative real interest rates in the United States.
The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by at least a quarter percent this week, dropping its federal funds rate to between 4 and 4.25 percent. What will that mean for gold and silver?
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ZURICH (Reuters) -The Swiss National Bank cut its interest rate to zero on Thursday and did not rule out returning borrowing costs to negative territory in future, although it stressed this was not a ...