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Paying someone in order to lend them money seems kind of pointless. Yet, the practice of stashing wealth in places where it yields nothing (and maybe even costs a bit for storage) is more common than you might think. Chinese, Russians, and Brazilians, for instance, buy US and Canadian condos...

By Richard Brink and Walt Czaicki These are tricky days for the global economy. As growth downshifts and corporate earnings weaken, some investors are dusting off playbooks for late-cycle investing. That makes sense, but there are a few twists to today's market conditions that may require...

I have been on the verge of writing this commentary for quite some time. The more that I thought it through though, the more complicated it seemed to become, and the more I felt like there were loose ends to my reasoning. I did not wish to leave any loose ends dangling here, like some "hanging...

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart." - Hunter S. Thompson Looking at the return of the "D" trade, "D" for "Deflation" that is with the return of the strong "bid" for bonds...

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 Frank Shostak Currently, we can observe a general slowdown in the annual growth rate in price inflation across major countries around the world. For instance, the yearly growth rate of the US consumer price index ((CPI)) fell to 1.5% in February from 1.6% in January and 2.2% in February...

With the German 10-year bunds closing last week with a yield of negative 0.03%, talk of yield curve inversion and a global recession is rampant as some short-term interest rates in the U.S. are now drifting above the 10-year Treasury yield. Still, the classic 2-10 spread, or t...

This is really getting out of hand. For the fourth day in a row, unofficially, Effective Federal Funds, or EFF, remains above IOER. At the same, now the 10-year UST yields less. What was last week pretty concerning stuff before the Fed's capitulation is this week whatever category lies below. ...

By Jenna Barnard, CFA Jenna Barnard, Co-Head of Strategic Fixed Income, shares her latest views on the bond market, explaining what she sees as possibly the early innings for an intermediate, cyclical, sovereign bond bull market. Transcript Jenna Barnard : It is Thursday, the 14th of ...

Posted by Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist on Mar 18, 2019, in Market & Economic Weekly Market Compass: Instead of attacking central banks, some politicians want to use them as a policy tool The United States has always had a difficult, complicated relation...