…bond investors are also showing signs of retreating. Moreover, the declines in currency values have expanded outside the “Fragile Five” of Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey to include…

…for lagged annual growth of GDP) The real interest rate is Moody’s index of Baa corporate bond rates (BAA) minus the rate of increase of the GDP deflator over the…

…and bond clippers will ALWAYS see any uptick in labor costs to put the country at risk of Weimar 2. That is the consequence of seeing labor through capitals eyes…

…lower bond), eventually inflation adjusts to the nominal rate in the long run so that the real interest rate returns to its natural level. Currently, the long run nominal interest…

…language, John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun, May 10 No, the title of this post doesn’t refer to the bond-vigilantes/austerity/confidence-fairy crowd, but instead to (yet again) the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision…

…year Bond Rates to the mean. Please chime in in comments. p. 25-44 Chapter 2: The Long-Term Outlook for Major Federal Health Care Programs Lots and lots of good stuff…

…defunding of state unviversities and also the rise in tuition and student debt. Robert Waldmann writes about the constant ballance of reporting. Yves Smith has covered mortgage settlements and the…

…a five-state auction. Using a discount rate of 2.5% (the 10-year Treasury bond yield on Sept. 4 was 2.45%) the $1.25 billion in nominal value has a present value of…

…have a new water bond that includes a lot of funds for this sort of thing. It strikes me that it fits with the model of internalizing profits/externalizing costs. If…

…most common methods for the businessmen to advocate for their agenda was to bond together. Recognizing the power in numbers, they formed associations like the American Liberty League (organized by…