Tag Archives: treasuries
Down Goes the Hopes and Dreams of Three Generations
The yield on the 10-Year Treasury note’s accelerating its descent toward zero. The last we checked the yield was at about 1.56 percent. But in every practical sense, for income investors, a yield of 1.56 percent may as well be … Continue reading
Rational Insanity
Dark storm clouds gather along the economic horizon. They multiply ominously with each passing day. The recovery, weak as it has been, has run for nearly seven years. Now it appears to be sputtering and stalling out. On Tuesday, for … Continue reading
Economic Profanity
Significant changes are taking place. As we noted several weeks ago, for the first time in 27 years wealth is not flowing into emerging markets. It’s flowing out. The global economy everyone has known since the late 1980s is being … Continue reading
Black Swan Fledgling – The Debt Crisis Takes Flight
The debt based money system plods along according to plan. The Fed offers unlimited credit. Public and private entities borrow and spend it. One of the more popular delusions of contemporary culture is disbelieving the money will ever have to … Continue reading