Although a number of other central banks have now adopted negative policy rates, the chances of the Fed following suit are pretty small. Even if US economic conditions deteriorated, we suspect that the obstacles to setting the fed funds rate below zero in the US would persuade the Fed to try other unconventional tools first.
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