Frau Merkel könnte sich dann das Geld für die Konjunkturprogramme sparen!

Prof. Dr. Willem Buiter und Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou haben dies bereits 2001 in dem Fachartikel “Liquidity traps: How to Avoid Them and How to Escape Them” vorgeschlagen!

“The second option is to lower the zero nominal interest rate floor on currency by
taxing currency. If a rule were followed that kept the nominal interest rate on currency
systematically below the nominal interest rate on non-monetary instruments, the economy
could never end up in a liquidity trap. Such a rule would require the authorities to be able to
pay interest, negative or positive, on currency, that is, to turn currency into Gesell money.”