People’s QE: Central Banks Declare War On Their Citizens

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. – Archibald Macleish

QE for the people was actually proposed by Jeremy Corbyn last year in Britain, and it did not sit too well with, central bankers. Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank England had the audacity to state that QE for the people would remove “fiscal discipline”. Central bankers have been anything but disciplined; they have systematically created every boom and bust cycle for the past 50 years. To create a boom, they loosen the cash spigots and vice versa. We are not stating that QE for the people is a good idea, but it’s as good as any idea the central bankers have floated over the past 3-5 decades.

However, what if central bankers were not planning QE for the people but QE from the people; how would they achieve this? That is where negative rates come into play. If you make it expensive to save, it could force the masses to speculate, and this is what the negative interest wars are all about. The masses will revolt at having to pay interest to the banks on their money while the banks will have the ability to lend this money out and profit from it.  

Talk about getting taxed to death. First the government taxes you on your earnings and now banks could start charging you interest for holding onto your funds, that they will lend someone else and profit of from; what a perfect scam. It could inadvertently force individuals to speculate as they desperately search for higher yields.

Negative rate wars gaining traction

Sweden has further lowered rates from -0.35 to -0.5 in their bid to hit their pie in the sky and target of 2% inflation. Switzerland and Japan have also embraced the negative rates bandwagon, and are becoming more open to this option. It is just a matter of time before our central bankers are forced to join the pack. In the era of “devalue or die” resistance is futile, and that is why we are sure it’s just a matter of time before the Fed reverses course and starts to lower rates.  They will prepare the masses for this by listing a host of negative factors that has forced them to reassess the situation.