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Bond Market Followup
June 1, 2009 – 10:04 pm
A very sharp decline got started in medium and long-dated U.S. Treasury debt on the same day that S&P made adverse comments about the sovereign debt of the UK. Some very knowledgeable people suggested the U.S. would be next. The decline gathered momentum and turned into a rout by last Wednesday afternoon.
Bond Market Distress
May 28, 2009 – 9:05 am
I’ve been telling people privately to watch the bond market for about a week now. Since last Thursday, we’ve seen a very sharp, fast drop in prices for medium and long-term US Treasury securities, which (in consequence) increases yields. The yield of the 10-year note, which is a critical indicator for mortgage rates, has leapt up above 3.70%, from below 3% just a few weeks ago, and from 2% at the beginning of the year. The yield curve is now steeper than it’s been in decades.
- November 21, 2009 -
MORE LEDGER
ELSEWHERE ON TNL
POLITICS
- Reid’s Massive Health Care Mess
- Jobs: An Economic Problem or a Political Problem?
- Nine Reasons Why the New York City Terror Trials are a Bad Idea
- Is America Becoming More Like China?
- Obamacare vs. the American Entrepreneur
- The Losing Side
- Prosperity and Capitalism After the Berlin Wall
- Is Joe Klein Nuts?
- Democrats Divided on Abortion and Health Care
- Berlin at 20: Neither Impossible Nor Inevitable
MARKET
- Negative Interest Rates, Fed Audits, and Geithner in the Dock
- Retail, Ben Bernanke, and Auditing the Fed
- China, Prosperity, and the Berlin Wall
- Christopher Dodd’s Big Regulation Push
- GDP Grows, Consumer Spending Plummets on the Eve of the Holiday Season
- Is the Recession Over? And AIG’s 100 Cent Payoff
- George Soros’s War on the Free Market
- The Executive Pay Crackdown and Too Big to Fail Policy Explained
- Hank Paulson’s Secret Goldman Sachs Meeting
- The New Home-Buyers’ Big Tax Credit Fraud
BLOGS
- David Broder On The Cost Of Health Care Reform
- Charles Krauthammer On Civilian Trials For Terrorist Suspects
- Of Global Warming And Potential Scientific Fraud
- Obama Steals Football from Children in NFL PSA
- I Realize That People May Be Tired Of Me Pointing This Out . . .
- Bribery
- Surprise! (Trade Policy Edition)
- Health Care “Reform” Will Cost Us
- Lindsey Graham Devastates Eric Holder
- Sino-American Communiqué Failures
EDGE
- Four Seasons of Awesome: Urbaniak on Venture Bros
- The Invention of Lying and Religion
- Gold For Oil and Son of Cash For Clunkers
- Polanski and the Crux of Art and Excess
- Tarantino: Hollywood’s Most Righteous Gentile
- Those Cursed Mets and the Book of Fred
- Why Michael Bay Is So Incredibly Awesome
- Goodell, Vick, and the Unforgiveable Crimes of the NFL
- Baseball’s Big Problem: Bill James on Steroids
- Public Enemies: Michael Mann’s Moral Relativism
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