Joanna Heath
They are dominating the market by telling us what to buy.If you go into a toy shop or children's clothes shop, you'll find the whole section for girls is almost all pink. Because of the domination of big companies,the original arts and crafts are beginning to dieout.Itwould be a rea...
Stay diversified, keeping a core holding in bondsOne investor habit I have written about before is home bias. As investors, we tend to buy what is close to home and familiar. However, as reams of studies since the 1960s have pointed out, buying what is comfortable is not always the ...
For the dominant reserve currency in a world where positive interest payments are always a subsidy relative to 0% currency there is no point in asking “who will buy the bonds?”. It would be like asking “who will pick up the printed money?” in our scenario where the government finances...
the beta coefficient between the price of gold and 10-year US inflation-protected treasury bonds (TIPS, real interest rates) is negative; however, when real interest rates rise, this coefficient turns positive, which contradicts the traditional understanding (that is, the rise in real interest rat...
Most importantly, it’s likely that QE has not had a substantive impact on the US economy to begin with. That is, interest rates likely would have fallen with or without QE because the US economy has remained weak leading to low inflation. So the demand for US T-bonds was never in dou...
” At the same time, people who have intimate friendships are eager to declare their devotion. The social theorist bell hookswritesthat women who have such close friendships “want these bonds to be honored cherished commitments, to bind us as deeply as marriage vows.” Companionate romantic ...
Smiling is a universal language that transcends cultural barriers, playing an instrumental role in forging and strengthening social bonds. When we smile at another person, they often respond in kind by returning the gesture and instantly connecting with us on an instantaneous level – creating bonds...
What you need to know about the sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds Under Gensler, the SEC brought actions against players in the crypto industry for fraud, wash trading and other violations, including as recently as last month when the commission brought fraud charges against three companies...
The window for private individuals to invest in the bonds will close on Tuesday 3 December. The Belgian State will then issue the bonds on 4 December.People buying bonds lend their money to the Belgian Government for an agreed number of years. In exchange, the State pays lenders an agreed ...