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We are all doomed? Or are we? Reasons for being cheerful or: - ‘Hit me with your rhythm stick!’

By Robert Sutherland Smith | Friday 17 October 2014


 


So the yield on short dated US government bonds fell below 2% on Wednesday 15th of October, upsetting the apple cart of portfolio planning by those who were persuaded that inflation was on the rise - thanks to the easing of quantitative easing known therefore as ‘tapering’ to avoid the confusion of too many ‘easings’ – and the cost of credit going up, due to a forecast shortage of supply as the Fed closed it easy money till. Normality was coming back along with higher borrowing costs. 


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