Falling yields
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Falling yields
Fed talking about tapering, everyone freaking out about inflation but the bond market shrugs it off and yields continue to drop...hmmm, almost as if maybe this whole inflation thing has been overblown again.
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There's no market, Fed has fingers on the scale. Cf BOJ owning all the bonds and working on the stocks
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank- ... 2021-03-19
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank- ... 2021-03-19
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If there is no market, then what assets are being bought?boglerdude wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:04 am There's no market, Fed has fingers on the scale. Cf BOJ owning all the bonds and working on the stocks
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank- ... 2021-03-19
I had in my head that the banks would still be buying treasuries and holding instead of the bank reserves they are holding now.
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Interesting divergence lately from the much maligned TLT and the always hated gold...
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The inflation hysteria got out of control
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Inflation is here. But the bond market must feel the Fed will manage it. It’s a high wire act for sure.
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People are completely ignoring deflationary headwinds from declining demographics amongst all major economies including China, technology advances, high levels of debt, overextended asset prices, and gridlocked government.
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We could have an overheating economy in the short term. I see signs everywhere that the US is awash in money. Put it this way, people with money are on a spending spree.
But I also sympathize with the deflation trends argument.
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But I also sympathize with the deflation trends argument.
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There may be deflationary headwinds, but the money printer goes "Brrrrrrr..."
How much money would the government have to print before a person arguing deflationary headwinds would have little choice but to concede, "Okay, I guess that much printed money might overcome the deflationary headwinds and cause some noticeable inflation"?
How much money would the government have to print before a person arguing deflationary headwinds would have little choice but to concede, "Okay, I guess that much printed money might overcome the deflationary headwinds and cause some noticeable inflation"?
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I’m in my sixties and I’ve never seen wages go down. They are going up now, a lot. Does anyone think they will retreat? If not, doesn’t that spell sustained inflation?
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In the US, more people are entering their peak spending/reproducing/earning years
So it's plausible that we will not be deflating bigly just yet. As for:
A demographically-collapsing country can still export goods and manufacturing abroad (like Japan). They just might not have enough citizens to have their own consumer-economy, but how would this be deflationary for the US?
So it's plausible that we will not be deflating bigly just yet. As for:
As the Zeihan says, "The United States economy is the least internationally linked of the significant powers. The fractions vary widely based on whose data you’re using, but as a rule the American economy is roughly one-third as dependent upon exports as the major Asian or European economies. link"
A demographically-collapsing country can still export goods and manufacturing abroad (like Japan). They just might not have enough citizens to have their own consumer-economy, but how would this be deflationary for the US?
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But they dont seem to be reproducing...and children are one of the primary reasons driving housing and spending.In the US, more people are entering their peak spending/reproducing/earning years
To me it seems that relative to 60 years ago we have strongly declining demographics. How long it takes to play out and show up in system is anyones guess given all the variables but I dont see how our nonexistant pyramid drives increasing demand going forward.
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Isn't that why the elites are pushing us to accept ever more immigrants?
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Originally I had something in my earlier post about how the Boomers might be spared a lot of the demographic problems, and it may actually be the Millennials who get hit the hardest. On the other hand, what if increased automation and robotics keeps productivity high in the face of falling population? Last I checked, standards of living in Japan aren't horrific.
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Not sure about low testosterone but the future looking so bleak doesn't help.MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:45 pm Anyone want to speculate as to why Millenials are not reproducing?
Could it be low testosterone in the males?
Or the fact that obese, tattooed feminists with purple hair are not appealing to men?
Or maybe the men are smart enough to realize that family law courts are going to destroy them in 7 years when the divorce happens?
What were the incentives for baby boomers? I can't come up with any current incentives for our society.
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Somewhat the last one, somewhat what What said. And a lot about self actualization. Babies are too expensive and lifestyle cramping for young people now. Millions of years of evolution and individual lineage survival against great odds comes to an end due to wanting to have better stuff and travel. Okay then!MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:45 pm Anyone want to speculate as to why Millenials are not reproducing?
Could it be low testosterone in the males?
Or the fact that obese, tattooed feminists with purple hair are not appealing to men?
Or maybe the men are smart enough to realize that family law courts are going to destroy them in 7 years when the divorce happens?
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Main reasons I'm not interested in having kids:
Expensive
Too much responsibility
Future too uncertain
Expensive
Too much responsibility
Future too uncertain
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As someone who had a baby girl last year and has a boy due in December......it is hard but well well worth it.
Your capacity for love will grow massively and they will bring joy into your life.
Depending on your income they are not that expensive. The tax deductions and credits at my income level for getting a wife and two kids is probably $20k or more.
Having a family to care for you when you're older is a big plus too.
And i go out drinking and philandering a LOT less.
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Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
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What will you say when your children move away to pursue their career? Will you be happy if they don't move back to help you in your old age? Will you be happy if they do move back, knowing that they may have uprooted their own career and family to do so? \SomeDude wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:36 amAs someone who had a baby girl last year and has a boy due in December......it is hard but well well worth it.
Your capacity for love will grow massively and they will bring joy into your life.
Depending on your income they are not that expensive. The tax deductions and credits at my income level for getting a wife and two kids is probably $20k or more.
Having a family to care for you when you're older is a big plus too.
And i go out drinking and philandering a LOT less.
I'm 39, no kids. I love kids, but apart from a very short time period before I got married, I've never felt any urge whatsoever to have children of my own. If I'd had kids, I suppose I would've enjoyed it, but I've also enjoyed aspects of not having children. It's just not something I feel the urge to do, so I won't upset the applecart. My wife feels the same way, and I know several other couples, usually younger than us, that feel the same way. In most cases, they're far more 'anti-kid' than I am. It's best to say that I'm neutral on children.
I've seen people deal with losses of children at early ages, or other significant medical issues. On the outside, they handled it as well as possible, but I shudder to think of what they went through on the inside. I know that for me, dealing with something like that with a child would be life-wrecking stuff. Absolutely devastating. Slightly less devastating would be an older child ruining their life with drugs or alcohol. Anyway, just my 2 cents worth. Kids have gone from being a requirement throughout most of human history, to something of a luxury.
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There's a pretty noticeable correlation between fertility rate and participation in organized religion. For example, devout Muslim populations around the world are among the fastest-growing, and Latino immigrants in the US (the majority of whom attend church weekly) have much higher birth rates than the general population.
The gradual drop in fertility rate is multifactorial, but clearly organized religion is one of the big factors.
In traditional organized religions like Islam, Christianity, and Orthodox Judaism, men and women are generally expected to get married, and women are generally expected to have and raise children rather than be career-driven. They don't have to do it, but social pressure nudges them in that direction.
Regular church attendance has been steadily dropping in the US over the past few generations, so predictably the fertility rate has been steadily dropping as well. Women in the US nowadays prefer to build careers rather than families.
The gradual drop in fertility rate is multifactorial, but clearly organized religion is one of the big factors.
In traditional organized religions like Islam, Christianity, and Orthodox Judaism, men and women are generally expected to get married, and women are generally expected to have and raise children rather than be career-driven. They don't have to do it, but social pressure nudges them in that direction.
Regular church attendance has been steadily dropping in the US over the past few generations, so predictably the fertility rate has been steadily dropping as well. Women in the US nowadays prefer to build careers rather than families.
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I wonder what effect the lack of new frontiers plays? Pioneers breed like rabbits, which might explain the high fertility of some religious groups (Muslims in Europe, Mexicans in America, Mormons, Amish, Israeli Jews). A very recommended book on the topic: The Great Frontier by Webb.
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I guess that inflation fear mania really signaled a buying opportunity for long bonds. What say all the interest rate vigilantes now?