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Financial markets worldwide have risen a tremendous amount this year, led by the U.S. Offsetting global economic weakness, monetary policy been excessively accommodative as inflation has been running well beneath their 2% threshold that most monetary authorities have targeted as a long-term ob...

By Richard Lawrence Back in July, I wrote about the idea that we spend more time thinking about what the world might look like six to 12 months forward than what it looks like today, as we try to anticipate what may change in the global economy over that time that may ultimately generate...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Weekly Market Compass: Four central banks revisit policy, plus two new reports point to a continued global slowdown Last week brought a number of key developments from central banks around the world, from the release of the Federal R...

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." - Sherlock Holmes I have lately been disturbed by the debt to GDP ratios issued by various governments. I don't think they are accurate. Further, I find the methodology of the ratings agencies flawed, in assess...

When you have entered this space, you may be assured that you have gone into some kind of distorted world, possibly created by Aldous Huxley. It may be a "Brave New World," but it may also be a level of Dante's "Inferno." Whatever it eventually turns out to be, it is certainly a historical pro...

In this article we will discuss the longer-term outlook for global interest rates and in particular longer-dated bond yields (NYSE: TLT ). The main purpose of this article is not to make any predictions over the short-term but serve as guidepost for potential shifts in deep secular trends th...

Today, we want to say two things about negative interest rates. The first is really simple. Anyone who believes in a theory of interest that says "the savers demand interest to compensate for inflation" needs to ask if this explains negative interest in Switzerland, Europe, and other countries...

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time." - Wonderland So you will just have to put up with it. You are going to have a dreadful time. I am going to explain something to you, and you will just have to suffer. Of course, you can always exit out of this article ...

Henry Curr is the economics editor for The Economist magazine, and the author of a special report by the magazine on the phenomenon of low inflation now facing the global economy. Henry joins Macro Musings today to outline this report and the big questions surrounding low inflation. Dav...