It’s clearly contributing to increased integration of labor markets and closing the wage gap between workers in advanced and developing economies, especially through the spread of technology. It also plays a part in increasing domestic & income inequality ^^
Yes, hovering over customers can make them feel uncomfortable in, for example, having a conversation because of another set of ears listening and constantly being interrupted
Answer:
Why can't the Fed push the rate any lower than zero?
Real interest rates can be lower than zero, or negative (because inflation rate is higher than interest rate), but nominal interest rates are generally only limited to zero. But during this same time, the European Central Bank actually started paying negative interest rates on money deposits and many European private banks followed. That means that they charged people for having their money on the bank.
Why do you think that the Fed was so seemingly reluctant to push the rate all the way to the floor?
The reason why the Fed was not willing to push the interest rates to zero or even below zero was that by doing so, the US dollar would have depreciated or lost value. In Europe this was done to encourage people to spend their money and not save as much, but in the US that is not really a problem. Generally in the US the problem is that people spend too much and save too little, but on some European countries and Japan, people tend to save too much. For example in Japan the national savings rate fluctuates between 22-40%, while the maximum savings rate in the US has been 10.4% in 1960, it currently is around 7.6%.
According to answers.com its greenbacks
It's a <span>partnership. I have to write more words but that's what that arrangement is.</span>
