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so when you wrote

But the central bank is paying them a negative real interest rate on their excess reserves, and demanding a negative real interest rate on their rediscounts.

how does this square with 1.5% ? Can you point me to some indication that the central banks are paying at such a rate?  What I see for both US Fed and ECB is significantly less.

by rootless2 on Wed Feb 29th, 2012 at 11:30:45 AM EST
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