Negative Interest Rates Spread To Mortgage Bonds
There are trillions of dollars of bonds in the world with negative yields – a fact with which future historians will find baffling. Until now
There are trillions of dollars of bonds in the world with negative yields – a fact with which future historians will find baffling. Until now
By now just about everyone understands what junk bonds are and why they matter. But there’s a non-publicly traded version of this kind of debt
Paying someone in order to lend them money seems kind of pointless. Yet the practice of stashing wealth in places where it yields nothing (and
There’s a lively debate out there over the size of the Everything Bubble. In the following excerpt, money manager Michael Pento concludes that this bubble
So the U.S. puts Republicans (the party of small government) in charge, and gets… trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see AND
After raising interest rates and getting slapped around by the markets last year, the Fed now appears to accept that future monetary policy can only
This was going to be the year when the other big central banks joined the Fed in “normalizing” interest rates and reversing the past decade’s
Two points about today’s political economy – and then a prediction involving Illinois: Point One: What’s coming is poetic justice for the aristocracy. The wave
When the financial markets got, um, choppy towards the end of 2018, the Fed caved almost instantly. But only rhetorically. Fed chair Powell promised to
Doug Noland’s weekly Credit Bubble Bulletin is always required reading. The latest – befitting the amazing things that have happened lately – is more necessary
People who assumed the Fed, along with the rest of the government, would cave the minute the financial markets got a little choppy turned out
The key insight of the Austrian School of Economics (maybe the key insight of ALL economics) is that the amount you borrow matters, but so
Are you sick of your gold just sitting there when it was supposed to have long since made you rich? Have you been fantasizing about
Money manager Michael Pento has been bearish on both stocks and bonds for some time. 2019 is the year, he says, when the big crash
Despite all the ominous press being devoted to the soon-to-be-inverted yield curve, it’s not always clear why such a thing matters. In other words, how,
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