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A Run For The Highs Friday wrapped up the first quarter of 2019, and it was the best quarterly performance since 2009. As shown in the chart below, if you bought the bottom, you are " killing it." However, you didn't. Despite all of the media "hoopla" about the rally, the realit...

From the global bubble perspective, it was one extraordinary quarter worthy of chronicling in some detail. The "Everything Rally," indeed. Markets turned even more highly synchronized - across the globe and across asset classes. As the quarter progressed, it seemingly regressed into a contest ...

What happened last week. What we're watching for next week. You all know by now that I try to make this article as brief and to the point as possible so that busy people can get a sense of what's happening in the market quickly. This week I'm focusing on two things: the inverted yield ...

When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age, you splatter. - Roy Rogers A lot of people in the bond markets have recently fallen off their horse. They called and called for higher yields based upon the Fed's statements in the Fall and Winter,...

The U.S. stock market finished its best quarterly performance since 2009 rising by nearly 13% with the 10-year treasury bond ending at a breathtaking 2.4%. The pundits/experts have been fighting this every day, constantly calling for a market top anticipating an economic downturn or even a rec...

MMTers tend to back the permanent zero interest rate idea. E.g. Warren Mosler (and Matthew Forstater) wrote a paper entitled "The Natural Rate of Interest is Zero." Milton Friedman also said he couldn't see the point of interest-yielding government debt (see his para starting "Under the pr...

By Ryan McMaken Money supply growth slowed in February, falling to the lowest rate recorded since February of last year. Overall, money-supply growth remains well below the growth rates experienced from 2009 to 2016, and has fluctuated little since March of last year. In February, year-o...

By Seema Shah, Global Investment Strategist, Principal Global Investors Last week, market interest rates dropped and hit the panic button. The three-month to 10-year (3m10y) portion of the U.S. treasury curve inverted for the first time since 2007. History tells us to respect the inversion...

Last year, I wrote an article entitled "The Upcoming Bond Bull Market," which, at the time, was pushing against the mainstream consensus which was predicting rates could only go higher. I am updating that article with the latest data points as the overall thesis of "why" we have remained bu...

It is a convoluted world. Negative yielding bonds have climbed since September and now compose about 19% of the world's bond markets. Whoever, in their right minds, thought that a lender would pay the borrower? We now have over $10.07 trillion, up from $5.7 trillion in early 2018, of negativel...