Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on March 24, 2020.
Inflation expectations have crashed along with the stock market and the oil price. This is evidenced by the following chart of the 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate, which indicates the average CPI that the market expects the government to report over the years ahead. Since the advent of the TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) market in 2003, the Expected CPI was only below last Friday's level of 0.50% during November-December of 2008 and January of 2009, that is, during the concluding months of the Global Financial