> I am curious if we're entering a period where western governments must run deficits and central banks must purchase said debt at sub zero interest rates to ke

> I am curious if we're entering a period where western governments must run deficits and central banks must purchase said debt at sub zero interest rates to keep the economy running. I think that as long as the EU wants to keep the political Euro project going, there is no way around such policies, since having rates go up could cause Southern European countries to default and would cause the EU to implode.