Quote from: sloanf on July 05, 2016, 06:36:51 AM

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/interest-rates/54580/ He said the rates would rise starting from 2013 and "The longest would be 2015."

That was not a prediction.

Good find. Note that is not a prediction of his computer model. It is him pontificating off-the-cuff in one dimension with Pi cycles. But we know his model incorporates multi-dimensional (multiple cycles) wave interference.

It is epitome of idiocy to criticize that which you haven't even bothered to comprehend. That you don't even know the basics of what I have written in the prior paragraph, you continue to display that you are not interested in the truth, but rather in some useless, non-factual, non-analytical smear campaign.

Also, rates have already been rising! But you don't realize that, because you are not very smart.

Quote from: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/bonds/global-debt-with-negative-rates-reaches-12-trillion/

Central banks cannot control long-term rates. All they can do is try to influence it by buying debt in an attempt to reduce the supply. But they cannot FIX LONG-TERM rates. That is purely a market function. Capital is running away from government debt. The bondholders have been willing to sell this to them and many are starting to shift to corporate debt. Many pensions have started that process while others have tried to buy emerging debt with higher yields.

sloanf, you have basically failed at a simple math problem that you would find on an 8th grade math exam.

When we say "interest rates rising", then the only objective measure is the weighted average of all money invested in bonds/loans of all types. So when capital starts shifting from 0% sovereign debt (leaving the Fed as the main buyer) to higher yielding corporate or emerging market debt, then even though the interest rates for those peripheral bonds declines, the weighted average increases.

Please STFU your trolling smear campaign, and go back to middle school.