…Kash Update: The following chart shows the yield on ten year government bonds today (45.0 = 4.50%, etc.). Can you tell when the Fed made its announcement? The bond market…

…Treasury bonds in the Social Security trust fund. Of course, Rep. Sabo appears to not understand that the Trust Fund is just an accounting device, and that the bonds are…

…personal retirement accounts would be invested in a conservative mix of broadly diversified bond and stock funds. Let’s be clear – a shift from a defined benefits program to a…

…it will have a substantial impact on asset market prices, in particular the bond market. Of course, asset market prices matter to the output markets, too… imagine some of the…

…on its debt. Note that this is not to say that holding US government debt is riskless. I do believe that owners of US government bonds are facing more and…

…by the White House Council of Economic Advisers found that tapping the bond markets to pay for private accounts would increase the nation’s debt-to-GDP ratio by 23.6 percentage points by…

…markets too. Can the fur and fury be far off? High oil prices, a weakening dollar, troubling signs from the bond markets… all are adding to suspicions of a looming…

…– his remarks continued to reverberate through the bond markets even yesterday as traders tried to figure out what he actually meant. Greenspan reiterated his standpoint on the economy (“recovery…

…return on stock they hold will over time exceed bond returns, in which case they can get away with contributing less to their pension funds. On average, that reasoning is…

…be explicitly temporary, to avoid spooking the bond market and driving interest rates higher. The tax cuts would have to be directed toward the middle class, and spending increases would…