“Don’t go negative,” pleads a Deutsche Bank U.S. Equities Research report, stating in strong if not unusually blunt terms that central bank central planners are making a serious mistake. Negative interest rates will result in “escalating the currency war” that will usher in economic “mutually assured destruction,” evoking a horrific nuclear or chemical specter. Deutsche Bank: Negative interest rates are weapons of mass destruction “The WMD are negative interest rates,” U.S. equity strategists David Bianco, Ju Wang and Winnie Nip plainly stated in the Feb. 14 report. During the lead up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then U.S. President…
"Don't Go Negative," Deutsche Bank Pleads
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.