Friday, December 7, 2018

UPDATE ON THE TWO-YEAR RATE COMPARED WITH THE FIVE-YEAR RATE

Related to my blog post from November 28, 2018 available here, data that I saw on CNBC show that the five-year interest rate on U.S. Treasury debt dropped below the interest rate on two-year U.S. Treasury debt earlier this week.  What, if anything, does this indicate about economic growth in the U.S. in the future?  Will the ten-year U.S. Treasury interest rate wind up less than the two-year Treasury rate?

SEASONS IN THE SUMMERTIME WITH THE U.S. JOBS REPORT THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND?

  Sorry if the record really sounds like it’s broken (with my suggestion that those not familiar see some of my recent blog posts like Har...