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Can the Fed avoid negative interest rates in the next downturn?

The Federal Reserve managed to avoid turning to negative interest rates through the pandemic-induced

Can the Fed avoid negative interest rates in the next downturn?

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But if the economy faces another downturn, will the central bank be backed into short-term borrowing rates below zero?</p>\n<p>In aUBS surveyof almost 30 central banks around the world, 21% of respondents said they could see the Fed turning to negative interest rates if needed.</p>\n<p>The concern: With U.S. short-term rates yet again backed up at near-zero, a Fed that may beslower to raise interest rateswill not have the room to again cut rates in the next crisis.</p>\n<p>But Fed officials, who managed to avoid the tool through an economic shutdown of unprecedented scale, have made it clear that negative interest rates are low on their lists of preferred policy tools.</p>\n<p>“Negative rates I think have a worse cost-benefit relationship than the other tools that we have,” New York Fed President John Williams told reporters on Monday morning.</p>\n<p>AnOctober 2019 discussionof negative rates noted that all of the Fed’s policy-setting members disliked the idea of implementing the policy in the U.S.</p>\n<p>“The committee’s view on negative rates really has not changed. This is not something we’re looking at,” Powell said in May 2020.</p>\n<p>Still, the central bank hasn’t explicitly ruled out its possible use in the future.</p>\n<p><b>‘Rather stay out of that game’</b></p>\n<p>Negative interest rate policies, such as those deployed by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, attempt to stimulate the economy by penalizing banks for parking money at the central bank. 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But if the economy faces another downturn, will the central bank be backed into short-term borrowing rates below zero?\nIn aUBS surveyof almost 30 central banks around the world, 21% of respondents said they could see the Fed turning to negative interest rates if needed.\nThe concern: With U.S. short-term rates yet again backed up at near-zero, a Fed that may beslower to raise interest rateswill not have the room to again cut rates in the next crisis.\nBut Fed officials, who managed to avoid the tool through an economic shutdown of unprecedented scale, have made it clear that negative interest rates are low on their lists of preferred policy tools.\n“Negative rates I think have a worse cost-benefit relationship than the other tools that we have,” New York Fed President John Williams told reporters on Monday morning.\nAnOctober 2019 discussionof negative rates noted that all of the Fed’s policy-setting members disliked the idea of implementing the policy in the U.S.\n“The committee’s view on negative rates really has not changed. This is not something we’re looking at,” Powell said in May 2020.\nStill, the central bank hasn’t explicitly ruled out its possible use in the future.\n‘Rather stay out of that game’\nNegative interest rate policies, such as those deployed by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, attempt to stimulate the economy by penalizing banks for parking money at the central bank. 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