Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question comes from Cameron. “Do you think that negative interest rates will come to Australia?” Today – look at what would trigger a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) – exchange rates, economic conditions like employment or inflation, then debt levels – at the household level The cash rate was cut to a record-low 0.25% in March and has remained there since. The Reserve Bank board insists it will not increase the cash rate until progress is being made towards full employment and it is confident that inflation will be sustainably within the two per cent to three per cent target band. Negative interest rates are a pretty dramatic financial measure to take – But lots of drastic measures have been taken recently – those by governments and central banks to help boost the Australian economy In a quarterly statement on monetary policy the RBA says negative interest rates would be an “extraordinary unlikely” course of action At this stage -