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Debt Ceiling Threat to Risk Free Rate: Is It Real?
The debt ceiling crisis has an inconspicuous victim, the bond market. The simple logic is that a Treasury default on its bonds will cause the bond investors to panic, causing…
Fed To Scale Back on Bonds: Aftermath and Effects
Financial markets went into a tizzy over Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s statement at the rate-setting panel press conference on June 19, 2013, “If the incoming data support the view…