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Bond Market and Inflation

Anticipating Inflation?
Posted by John McClelland on February 16, 2010 in  uncategorized
Seeking Alpha has a good article today regarding bond market expectations of inflation. The author notes that 4.7% yields seem massive in today's low interest rate environment but 30 year bonds are still selling poorly. The weak investor appetite for these bonds implies that market participants are expecting inflation since 4.7% yield in a deflationary market would be supurb. If this author is correct about inflation expectations, what does that mean for real estate? My take is at these low inter... read more

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