The Interest Rate Shock Will Blow Up The Government’s Ponzi Game – Analysis

By Thorsten Polleit

In the international fixed-income markets, interest rates are rising, and the decades-long trend of declining bond yields has undoubtedly been broken. On August 2, 2022, the ten-year United States Treasury yield was 0.5 percent; on October 9, 2023, it had risen to 4.8 percent. Long-term interest rates in...