…would require Congress to go to the bond market and attempt to borrow money there to make up for the money they have been “borrowing” from Social Security. Krasting predicted…

…buy and sell toxic assets for its own benefit and manage portfolios of toxic assets for others, all while holding or managing equity or debt securities of the banks and…

…the bonds are not affected by current interest rates, the $27 billion in 2009 bonds yielding 7.25% are going to add $1.95 billion to the Trust Fund no matter what…

…amount of bonds outstanding so they correspond to buying equal amounts of all corporate bonds in the Moody’s dataset (including all Moody’s rated bonds and some other bonds). So the…

…from the gold standard. Growth of the M2 money supply (currency, checking accounts, and savings accounts) slowed with the pace of mortgage refinancings after the jumps in bond yields in…

…inflation is falling, and employment growth has fallen. Furthermore, notice what’s happened to bond yields: they’ve also fallen significantly over the past couple of months. The yield on the 10-year…

The Bond Market Reacts Apparently the bond market was taken by surprise by this morning’s employment report. The interpretation clearly seems to be that this is a strong sign that…

…in early March and early April. Bond yields plummeted on March 5, when the employment report was somewhat weaker than expected. And bond yields shot up on April 2, when…

You know the trillion dollars a year of Treasury and GSE bonds that the Fed’s buying up? (And the $3-trillion+ it’s already holding?) It’s driving up bond prices and suppressing…

The software placed all the charts in the previous post after the page break. I do not know how to fix it so go to page 2 to real the…