Yes, the "trial balloons" are always floated by some peripheral pundit about some outlandish policy theory to gauge public sentiment. Newspapers and the general media have done it for many years now (with instant feedback via online polls)...If the initial reaction is overwhelmingly negative, then it is shelved for awhile, until it will possibly have more support...10 years ago you would have been labelled a tinfoil hat wearing, "conspiracy theorist" if you predicted that we would follow the Japanese with Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP)...you would have literally been laughed out of the room...7 years of ZIRP have now become just accepted policy, as if the majority see nothing wrong with it...hence, we have the periphery now talking about an outright ban of cash and NIRP...Nine_Ender is part of the herd calling it a "conspiracy theory", but he is also a guy who doesn't believe in bear markets either (aka a "true believer")...hence, the conditioning will need to continue until he comes on this thread and argues in favor of NIRP and a ban of physical cash to "save the markets".

