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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by xyzzy4 on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @10:00AM (#11019765)
Or ban birth control, abortion, porn, and have more arranged marriages.
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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by guard-of-terra on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @10:16AM (#11019882)
Do you have even one case where this has worked? You can outright drown your horse but even that won't necessarily make it drink.

Making people miserable is rarely a good strategy unless you're building ISIS.

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by ido on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:09PM (#11021161)
I believe Communist Romania tried something like that to devastating effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770
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