The chart of the day is courtesy of The Telegraph and discussed by Sol Palha on Safehaven, that shows several Global Central Banks have embraced very low interest rate or even Negative Interest Rate Policies (NIRP) to try and arrest deflation and fuel growth. The jury is out on whether this would work long term as such an experiment in Japan is ending in failure.
The Incredible 13%-Yielding Junk Bond Fund That’s Backed By The Fed
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Those dark days did do one critical thing for the high-yield corporate-bond
market: made these so-called "junk bonds" too big to fail.
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