More Cash as well as Zero Bound

In my last post I started thinking almost how options other than currency enforce a nix bound. Imagine in that location is no to a greater extent than currency , in addition to the Fed tries to impose -5% involvement rates. You set inwards a dollar , yous leave of absence 95 cents. What other ways are in that location to guarantee that if yous set inwards a dollar yous larn dorsum a dollar? (In my concluding postal service , I every bit good pointed out that inwards each representative rules or laws could live changed , just that the magintude of the required changes was pretty big.)

 From Kenneth Garbade in addition to Jamie McAndrews inwards a overnice Liberty Street Economics weblog post

• Certified check. Go to the banking enterprise , enjoin the banking enterprise to write yous a $10 ,000 certified check. Put it inwards your sock drawer. (More: "Certified checks , which are liabilities of the certifying banks rather than private depositors , mightiness drib dead a pop way of payment , every bit good every bit an attractive shop of value , because they tin strength out live made payable to club in addition to tin strength out live endorsed to subsequent payees.")

Or , inspired past times that: 

• Don't cash checks. Every ninety days , telephone scream upward up , tell yous lost the banking enterprise gibe , inquire them to reissue it. 

Clumsy. But every bit Ken in addition to Jamie signal out , it's real slow for a fellowship to larn started that does this , in addition to offering fixed-value accounts to clients , beating the -5% at banks. Or , fifty-fifty inwards today's super-regulated surroundings , possibly banks could figure out to produce this. After all , the Medici figured out inwards the 1400s to write offsetting bills of telephone commutation to synthesize interest.

So , the projection volition hateful changing the rules in addition to laws governing checks , going dorsum hundreds of years.

An before post past times Todd Keister:

• Money marketplace position usual funds.

Currently coin marketplace position funds hope fixed value , in addition to pay positive interest.  They are non laid upward to accuse negative involvement , or to let majuscule losses. Maybe they should -- I've argued for floating NAV -- just they don't. The Fed kept the 0.25% charge per unit of measurement on reserves just in addition to then banks in addition to coin marketplace position funds didn't bring to reinvent themselves inwards ways that let majuscule losses or negative rates. 

Miles Kimball has every bit good been writing inwards favor of negative nominal rates in addition to thinking almost the nix bound. One postal service is here.