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As a response to the COVID-19 shock, we saw that Chinese authorities have not been as aggressive as other major economies such as Italy, Japan or the US. Bank of America recently computed the amount of fiscal and monetary ‘stimulus’ for each economy since the start of the year an...

By Ryan McMaken Money supply growth surged to another all-time high in May, following April's all-time high that came in the wake of unprecedented quantitative easing, central bank asset purchases, and various stimulus packages. The growth rate has never been higher, with the 1970s the o...

The Federal Reserve has publicly disclosed it's considering it, and many commentators have analyzed the implications. Officially, the central bank is conducting "further analysis" on so-called yield curve control (YCC). But looking at the flat trend in the 10-year Treasury yield in recent mont...

By Matthew Sheridan & Monika Carlson Credit barbell strategies are designed to provide protection on the downside, participation on the upside, and efficient income. But with government bond yields at historic lows, can these fixed-income strategies still meet their objectives? We thin...

Something will have to give, and on an increasingly more proximate timeline, although we have no idea when that timeline runs its course... In basic terms, U.S. bond yields are only sustainable as long as: There remains a market-wide faith that the U.S. government will not deflate itself...

By Mickey D. Levy The Federal Reserve is aggressively easing monetary policy, but the story behind the recent surge in money stock is much more complex (and interesting) than simply attributing it to the expansive policies of the Federal Reserve. It will stimulate stronger economic growth,...

By Seema Shah, Chief Strategist, Principal Global Investors Through the pandemic, global fiscal support packages have gone a long way towards helping to offset the decline in corporate and household income. In the U.S., where signs of activity bouncing back from the disruption of lockdown ...

Is everyone familiar with the bet between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich? Ehrlich wrote a book titled The Population Bomb. He held a pessimistic view of the future, in which population growth would outstrip resources (essentially the same as Thomas Malthus). Simon disagreed. So in 1980, they ...

The yield curve remains at about the same place it was a month ago. Since the mid-March peak of optimism after the initial reactions to COVID-19, yields have declined, which would suggest that the Fed could do more in terms of basic nominal stimulus. But, the decline in long-term yields has ...

By Robert Eisenbeis On June 15, the Federal Reserve published revised terms and conditions for what it calls its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, which is a special-purpose vehicle ((SPV)) created to purchase in the secondary market corporate debt that meets certain eligibility ...