Tipos de interés negativos o finanzas que andan de cabeza
Expanded version of the article with the same title published in Noticias Obreras , number 1,588 of October 2016 For some time now, central banks have been applying negative interest rates to deposits held by private banks. The same has happened with government bonds recently issued by various countries (including Spain). Some banks are even starting to charge their customers instead of paying interest on their deposits, to the point that many people with large sums of money in countries like Japan or Germany have begun buying safe deposit boxes en masse to keep their fortunes in cash. The meaning of negative interest rates is quite clear: lenders, instead of