March 23, 2010
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This is the news in US debt catching our eye early this week following the passing of the health care reform bill late Sunday night: charts of yields on US Treasuries are showing a spike in short-term, two-year treasury yields – a spike that lifts them above the yields on corporate bonds for the same [...]
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January 27, 2010 · 2 comments
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The Obama administration sits between an economic rock and a political hard place. Others might call it a contradiction. Obama needs to cut spending, but he’s doing this at the same time that more spending is being introduced (on job creation, more troops in Afghanistan). Slight cuts in some areas are supposed to offset increased [...]
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January 26, 2010 · 4 comments
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State of the (Economic) Union 2010: is political news now a leading indicator of stock markets?
I can’t remember where I read it recently, perhaps even in the End of Influence, but the consensus among some who know more about it than I do is that stock markets, and most notably the U.S. stock market in [...]
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