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- by New Deal democrat One Salient Oversight is a kindred blogger who also dissects historical patterns of economic expansion and contracti...

- by New Deal democrat From Bonddad: This is, without a doubt, one of the best pieces NDD has ever written. I agree 100% with his conclus...

From the WSJ: The Treasury Department laid out near-term borrowing plans Wednesday, saying it expects to tap financial markets for $550 bill...

I've strenuously argued against cutting interest rates for awhile now. There are several reasons for this. 1.) Even before the Fed star...

With all the talk of the rate cut you'd think that interest rates were currently at restrictive levels. That's simply not the case....

One of the primary reasons I was (and am) against the rate cut is the impact on the US dollar. The markets are currently playing out that s...

From Bloomberg: The U.S. commercial paper market shrank for a third week, extending the biggest slump in at least seven years, as investors ...

This paragraph from a WSJ article got me thinking: Tom Sowanick, chief investment officer for investment manager Clearbrook Financial LLC...

For the rest of the day you will be cursing Bonddad for putting that damn song in your head. From the WSJ: The jump in yields has been drive...

From the WSJ: U.S. bond yields hit a five-year high, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rising to nearly 5.25%, driving u...

From Bloomberg: The biggest rout in the Treasury bond market in three years is making Wall Street's bond bulls more bearish. Investors a...

From the WSJ: Rising rates make it harder for buyout firms to finance takeovers with borrowed money, and buyouts were one of the main suppor...

From CNBC: However, Lacker, one of the Fed's toughest inflation hawks, said he'd like to see the inflation rate come down a bit more...

From Reuters: Moskow noted that core inflation is still running above the 1 percent to 2 percent range that some policy-makers, including h...

From the WSJ: Euro-zone inflation risks "have not diminished" in recent months and the European Central Bank hasn't signaled t...

From the WSJ: Bank of Japan board members Tuesday voted unanimously to leave monetary policy steady, in line with indications from the centr...

From the WSJ The Bank of Japan on Wednesday decided to raise interest rates, breaking free from a policy impasse that had kept Japan's s...

From CBS Marketwatch: But S&P says, in effect, that we shouldn't be worried. Their argument, which appears in the Feb. 14 edition o...

From Bloomberg Treasury 10-year note yields rose to the highest level since August this week after government bond sales drew weaker-than-ex...

Talk of a housing bottom started sometime in October. Since then we've gotten more news on new and existing home sales to stoke talk of...