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• The Failure Caucus

  …won the argument" he and Krugman had about "the future path of long-term interest rates." (As this chart of the 10 - year treasury note over the past two years shows, he's done no such thing.) This crowd is downright hostile to the optimists. I …

  By Daniel Gross

  09/02/2009Tech and Business
• Ducking the Deficit Issue

  …foreign exchange markets. But none of these calamities has yet occurred. Precisely the opposite. Low interest rates on 10 - year Treasury bonds, about 3.5 percent, suggest ample investors. Though huge deficits pose long-term hazards, cutting them sharply …

  By Robert J. Samuelson

  08/31/2009Newsweek - Robert J. Samuelson
• Bulls Will Have Their Day

  …Let's take the U.S. as an example. For the past five years, through the end of the first quarter of 2009, the 10 - year Treasury bond had a total return of 6.2 percent a year, while the S&P 500 declined by 4.8 percent a year. For the last 10 …

  By Barton Biggs

  07/11/2009Business
• The Bond War

  …the state of those bonds has become the subject of feverish argument in the economic elite. The interest rate of the 10 - year Treasury bond has spiked from 2.07 percent in December 2008, when the world was falling apart, to a recent high of 3.715 percent …

  By Daniel Gross

  06/04/2009Tech and Business
• Lower Expectations

  …interest rates don't always affect long-term rates (which include mortgage rates), in this case they have. The rate on 10 - year Treasury bonds recently hit a historic low of 2.1 percent . That, in part, has led to a rush of calls to mortgage brokers by …

  By Daniel McGinn

  12/24/2008Tech and Business

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