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I don't think that was quite the message the FOMC wanted to send. It's pretty clear what the Committee wanted to say, or wanted everyone to hear. The members are done with rate cuts because everything looks great. Sure, it all looked great to them last year, but as has become the conventional...

Rick Rieder and Russ Brownback argue that - in contrast to the past decade of monetary policy lifting all economic boats at once - the years ahead are likely to be characterized by great dispersion between economies, industries and markets. Understanding that dynamic will be the name of the g...

By Kevin Flanagan The volatility in Treasury ((UST)) yields since Labor Day is a real-time example of what investors have been faced with recently regarding the direction of interest rates. While 2019 thus far has been, generally, a year of falling rates as compared to the 2018 experience,...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on November 18, 2019. In a blog post in early September , I noted that the 10-year TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Security) yield had just gone negative and that the previous two times that this proxy for the real interest rate wen...

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 ...

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. - Ben Bernanke Not 21st-century Fed, though. The most proactive central bank recently...

Originally published November 12, 2019 By Erin Bigley With interest rates having fallen to such low levels over the course of the year and government bond returns having been very solid year to date, it's left many investors questioning, should they continue to have duration withi...

Originally posted on November 13, 2019 By Eric Winograd Transcript At its last meeting, the Federal Reserve gave a pretty clear signal that they don't intend to cut interest rates in December. They've cut rates three times in a row now, for a total of 75 basis points. And their ...

Simpler is often better when discussing topics like fractional reserve banking, so let's keep it simple. Investors put money into a bank. If it is a savings account or a CD, the bank pays those investors interest in exchange for the use of that money. Most checking accounts receive no interest...