The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted

Re:The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted by drjesusphd on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:00AM (#18598992)

There are many factors of the global economy that determine the market-determined yield at a given time. The only way a country being "good with money" is in comparison to the yield of other central banks at the same time.

I don't have the data, but if Germany's yield followed a similar trend down then up, but remained below the US throughout, then the hypothesis holds.

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Re:The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted by kgwgk on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:52AM (#18600475)

For reference, German yield was around 1.5%, 0% and 0.25% on those dates (vs 3%, 1.5% and 3% for the US).

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Re:The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted by RobertoG on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:14AM (#18599110)

The elephant in the room in this kind of reasoning is Japan.

Japan shows that the narrative of "good country" vs. "bad country" and interest rates beyond the control of the Central Bank have little to do with reality.

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