Only the lowest form of society throws its own children under the bus...
These pseudo-intellectual schemes to propagate the bankrupt status quo at any cost - negative interest rates, ponzi borrowing, 0%, printing money to buy stocks - are the last resort for a morally and intellectually bankrupt society. It's all at the expense of future generations.
All of which chicanery is merely "status quo" for a society too stoned on junk food and junk culture to realize that 0% represents the selling of the future, and therefore the future is "now".
As a result, they will ALL be duly surprised when this clusterfuck final implodes out of "nowhere". A fitting ending to a society that spends its own future and then is shocked when it ends...
There are two types of deflation, one derives from making things more efficiently, the other derives from going out of business...
This is the latter form of deflation
Corporate profits:
