Rising Interest Rates, Falling Consumer Spending… Looks like yet another down day for bonds, which means another up day for interest rates. The sharpest climb in long-term interest rates in…
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The Stock Market and Interest Rates
The quick and dirty rule of thumb is that the relationship between bond yields and the S&P 500 PE is one-to-one. That is, 100 basis point change in bond yields…
The End of an Era: Ben Bernanke Passes the Torch
…most remembered is the $4.1 trillion balance sheet he left behind for Yellen. The drastic actions of purchasing $1.5 trillion in mortgage debt and creating $2.4 trillion in bank reserves…
“Never predict anything, especially the future,” as Casey Stengel wisely said. “But let’s look, instead, at the past.”
…bonds would fall in price. A generation of money managers got hosed. Prices flattened, and then fell. Interest rates fell with them. Bond prices boomed.” Could America follow suit? The…
Wage Inflation and Expected Price Inflation
…graph. I look at data for intervals starting from the second half of 1992 through the second half of 2012 (the most recent available). The labels refer to the start…
Wasting One Life Away
…was out on bond. “Back in 1999, Anderson helped rob a Burger King assistant manager in St. Charles, Mo., with what turned out to be a BB gun. In May…
New government accounting standards to require subsidy disclosure
…but to comply with whatever is adopted, as it is impossible to issue bonds or carry out other basic financial operations unless they meet GAAP standards. This is why Good…
Time to comment on the GASB standards!
…subsidies will simplify research by bond analysts, academics, or anyone else, putting total subsidies in one convenient place within the CAFR. In addition, Good Jobs First notes other deficiencies on…
Whose Inflation Expectations ? *
…I think they interact with the “smart money” through nominal interest rates (on bonds they issue and on loans) not expected inflation. Higher long term inflation expected by bond traders…
The Stagnation Capitulation and The Taper Tantrum
…announcement wasn’t news at the time it allegedly caused bond prices to sharply fall. Another is that bond prices fell over roughly a month. There wasn’t just that one sudden…
