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Digital Currencies Pave Way for Deeply Negative Interest Rates

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Digital Currencies Pave Way for Deeply Negative Interest Rates

If people can’t hoard physical money, it becomes much easier to cut rates far below zero

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What El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment Looks Like
What El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment Looks Like
El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as its national currency, allowing people to use a digital wallet to pay for everyday goods. Here’s what the impoverished nation’s risky experiment looks like. Photo: Marvin Recinos/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Updated Sept. 8, 2021 6:11 am ET

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Investors have been ignoring progress toward government-issued electronic money, even as many countries are progressing rapidly toward their own online cash. They should ask two questions: Will the Federal Reserve issue a digital dollar? And will it eventually replace physical bank notes?

I think the answer to both questions is yes, and those who agree should be assessing the impact on future monetary policy already, because dramatic change is likely within the timespan of the 30-year Treasury.

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