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Negative Rates Together With Inflation

Have negative involvement rates boosted inflation? Here is a overnice graph (source macro-man blog, HT FT alphaville)

Source: Macro-man blog
Not really. Explanations? Choose the chicken or the egg:

1) But for negative rates, inflation would accept been fifty-fifty lower

2) We're living inwards a Fisher number world. Lower rates lower inflation. (Which is arguably a good, if unintended, thing)

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