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Swiss Bank Hits Customers With Negative Interest Rates; Crazy? What About Velocity?

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per cent rate to their institutional clients, but Alternative Bank Schweiz is believed to be the first retail bank to hit savers with a charge. With its balance sheet totalling nearly 1.6 The ECB became the first major central bank to venture below zero in June 2014, and it now charges banks 0.2 percent if necessary.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

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Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Expect more on this in 2014. Will it happen in 2014? At long last, the Fed has finally started to taper. Here we are. It is a critical issue. The broad U.S.