Tag: zlb

• Who’s got the power?

    When interest rates go up, and they will, the 50% increase across the board will topple markets, namely bond markets. Today’s interest rates are unprecedented. The lowest possible bound for an interest rate USED to be 0%. In finance terms, we call it the ZLB or the zero lower bound. Today bond yields in Germany…

  Thomas Schleusener

  August 3, 2016

  Markets, Non-Fiction

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