Exuberance in the Bond Market Check out what’s happened to the yield on the 10 year treasury note in recent days: Ever since last Friday’s weaker-than-expected employment report, the bond…

…bonds. The problem here is that the say the Baa corporate bond rate is an average of the rates on many different bonds. If the Fed were to promist to…

…are described as bond financed deficit spending combined with open market operations. In MMT deficit spending means monetized deficit spending and bond financed deficit spending is described as monetized deficit…

…bond yield versus the long run trend.” Bond yields are now below their long run trend and may be at or near a secular bottom. Of course no one rings…

…this first chart fails to distinguish between credit spreads on corporate bonds with high credit ratings versus credit spreads on corporate bonds with lower credit ratings. Except the authors present…

…Treasury’s and into Euro area bonds. But the other similar graph was yields on Chinese bonds, which typically can only be traded internally in China: So on the global scale,…

…the US Federal Government can inflate away the present value of payments on long term bonds. Losses to investors can be the same if a bond which pays cents on…

…Donald Trump–simply by dint of the fact that I know that government finances its debt through the issuance of bonds and similar instruments, and that I know what a bond…

Alan Collinge of the Student Loan Justice Org. has a petition promoting the cancellation of Student Loan Debt. When Angry Bear ran (April 1) his commentary on Student Loan Debt…

…on debt, due to tiny changes in both revenues and spending. 5. Democratic presidents are the only ones to reduce the debt — and they do so in a big…