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BOJ's Kuroda Threatens More Easing, Stocks Tank, Absurdity Reigns

Submitted by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com,

“Negative interest expense” or some such absurdity yet to be coined.

“For now, the effect of negative interest rates is very strong, so we’d like to steadily proceed with this policy,” Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda told parliament today, to reassure the nervous politicians that the economy was on the right track under his fearless and wise leadership.