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The disruption this week is connected with the US-China trade talks that is scaring financial markets throughout the world. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note dropped to 2.45 percent as money poured into the bond market, down from the 2.50 percent close yesterday. This rush to ris...

A few months ago, I wrote part III to this series outlining why interest rates would continue to remain low and most likely continue to fall on the long-end of the curve, confounding consensus opinion as to why interest rates should rise. The consensus opinion on long-term interest rates, ...

Public statements by Federal Reserve officials in recent days remain unified in forecasting that the recent deceleration in a key measure of core inflation is "transitory." The first reality check on that outlook via hard data is scheduled for this Friday's April report for the Consumer Price ...

The last year has been an uncertain one for bond markets. Four rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve in 2018 and the promise of more to come in 2019 sent the markets into a swoon. If further tightening was on any central bank's agenda, an inverted yield curve, the first since 2007, quickly move...

More US bank respondents reported to the Federal Reserve that they are seeing weaker demand for Commercial & Industrial Loans than at any time since the end of the Great "Recession." The Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) asks respondents to gauge certain ...

By Doug French Speaking at the Grant's spring conference, Steve Hanke, master monetary economist, described the money creating business in the US as "Pretty much everything is well-behaved." While the Fed does its best (or worst) to inflate, Hanke is one of the few in academics to understa...

Notwithstanding Friday's absurdly phony and propagandistic employment report, it's becoming more apparent by the week that the Fed and the U.S. government are once again preparing to print more money. I don't know when the Fed will revert to more QE, but I would argue that the intense effort b...

This article is for folks who are interested in economics, especially about how monetary and fiscal policy will work differently in the future. It will focus on Monetary Policy 3 (the new type that we will see more of around the world) and Modern Monetary Theory (a recently proposed new approa...

The S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) bounced up to reach a new high closing value of 2,945.83 on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, before dipping back on the next two trading days and finally closing a fraction of a point below that level on Friday, May 3, 2019. The level of the S&P 500 is consiste...

Alexandra Scaggs is a senior writer at Barron’s covering financial markets with a special emphasis on bond markets, and she previously wrote news and commentary for the Financial Times and for Bloomberg. Alexandra joins the show today to talk about the current state of bond markets...