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Interest Rates

The cost of money sets the tone for everything else — Clem’s columns on rates and why they matter to investors.

• What Next for Interest Rates, Inflation, the Fed and the US Economy

  Its been a long time since the market was allowed to drive the US economy.

  13 June, 2024

• The Bank of England's Rate Hike: A Sign of Panic

  The Bank of England today raised interest rates by half a percent, in a move that exemplifies a panicked central bank.

  22 June, 2023

• Navigating the New Economic Reality of Low Interest Rates

  The big make or break investment question that we need to answer is whether the new reality of zero and negative interest raters is a sustainable economic state.

  23 December, 2015

• The Fed's Interest Rate Decision: A Turning Point?

  So as you read this, the result of the Fed interest decision of 9/17/15 will be out.

  16 September, 2015

• Bond-aggedon: The Rising Interest Rates

  Bond-aggedon has begun. Interest rates are going up.

  11 June, 2015

• The Bumpy Road to Normalized Interest Rates

  10 year bond yields are a strong barometer of where interest rates are going because like the Baby Bears porridge it’s just about right to tell what is going on in the crazy world of central bank fixed interest rates.

  22 May, 2015

• The Debt Market Dilemma

  The last time the stock market crashed it wasn’t to do with stock values, or results or overheated p/e’s or glory stocks falling from the skies.

  15 May, 2015

• Currencies as the Canary in the Coal Mine

  I’ve said a few times in passing that the markets are no longer free.

  26 January, 2014