Suppose the bank told you if you didn’t spend the money in your account, they would confiscate a portion of it?

And they justify this as ‘stimulus’, because they have already screwed up.

Social Democracy. Bernie, are you paying attention?

Bloomberg Biz:

Sweden Cuts Rates Deeper Into Negative Territory, Says May Go Further

Size of rate cut only predicted by three of 18 analysts
Two board members enter reservation against cutting rates

Sweden’s central bank lowered its key interest rate even further below zero and said it’s prepared to use its full toolbox of measures as it battles to revive inflation and keep the krona from appreciating.
The repo rate was reduced to minus 0.50 percent from minus 0.35 percent, the Stockholm-based bank said. A cut was predicted by 10 of the 18 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, though only three had anticipated this magnitude. The bank said government bond purchases will continue as planned for the first six months of 2016 and that it “will reinvest maturities and coupons from the government bond portfolio until further notice.”

“Uncertainty regarding global developments is still high, with low inflation and several central banks pursuing more expansionary monetary policy,” the Riksbank said. “Swedish monetary policy must relate to this. Otherwise the krona exchange rate is at risk of strengthening at a faster rate than in the forecast, which would make it harder to push up inflation and stabilize it around 2 percent.”