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What Bond Bull Really Means

By |2019-02-04T17:24:39-05:00February 4th, 2019|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

As the saying goes, the plural of anecdotes is not data. It might also be said that the plethora of anecdotes does not make for accurate news. Before around mid-December 2018, media outlets particularly those like Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal anxious to vindicate the technocrats at the Federal Reserve couldn’t print enough stories about the labor shortage. Barely [...]

Japan’s Longer History With Bull

By |2018-05-02T12:34:41-04:00May 2nd, 2018|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

File it under the things they wish you would never find out. On March 25, 2003, two years into what was supposed to be a temporary intervention, the Bank of Japan gathered for another policy meeting to discuss what they might do. They had launched the world’s first ZIRP in February 1999, ended it August 2000 with a “rate hike”, [...]

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