rdan hat tip Tim Schilling…

…through second- and third- (+) order carry-on effects of quite uncertain and contestable mechanism and efficacy. I’m with Steve Randy Waldman: if you want to kill James Bond, just shoot…

…Fed SOMA holdings of each issue. Now while Notes and Bonds are not individually labelled it is easy to distinguish 10 Year and shorter Notes and 30 Year Bonds simply…

…as US and UK breakevens, because the market for CPI indexed bonds is very thin and there are very few different CPI indexed bonds. The series shows a break on…

…good time for an update. CORPORATE BOND YIELDS: With the sole exception of the 1981 “double-dip,” corporate bond yields have always made their most recent low over 1 year before…

– by New Deal democrat There’s no important economic data today, so this is a good time to write about several important developments in the stock and bond markets. First…

…comes to taking the pulse of financial markets, amateurs talk about stocks, but professionals talk about bond and currency markets. That’s because bond and currency markets are generally less driven…

…Now, some substance – yes, the agency debt had an implicit federal guarantee. But… let us be very precise about our definition. Agency debt means debt issued by a US…

…with ‘it depends…’: Privatisation and government debt Possibly the worst argument for privatizing part of the public sector is a supposed ‘need’ to reduce public sector debt. I think the…

by Rebecca Wilder According to the Eurostat flash estimate, Euro area GDP fell by 0.2% in both the euro area and the EU27 in the second quarter of 2012. In…