Day after day we are told that stocks are the place to be and that bonds are a disastrous bet as “rates must rise” but it appears that, increasingly, the world’s developed (and debt-laden) economies are turning Japanese (with German 2Y rates at 2bps for example). But, for some context as to how low rates really are, Deutsche’s Jim Reid unveils 500 years of Dutch (European) interest rates… and we have never been lower.