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12 February 2022
Short-term and long-term interest rates
Interest rates will be very much in the news in the months ahead, so I'm embedding a couple charts from Bloomberg for reference. Above is a two-year chart of two-year bond rates. Below is a 3-year chart of 10-year Treasuries.
I think this chart is instructive. It shows yields on the T-10 back to 1790. Note that we have been in a bull market in bonds (bond prices up, yields down) since 1981. That 40 year period leaves a very large proportion of both the general public and investing professionals with no experience of a secular bond bear market.
I think this chart is instructive. It shows yields on the T-10 back to 1790. Note that we have been in a bull market in bonds (bond prices up, yields down) since 1981. That 40 year period leaves a very large proportion of both the general public and investing professionals with no experience of a secular bond bear market.
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Could you explain a bit more what we're looking at here and what it might mean?
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ReplyDeletethanks for helping anon out, Mike.
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