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U.S. Bond Market May Be in ‘Bubble,’ Yale’s Shiller Says
The U.S. bond market surge that has pushed debt yields to record lows may constitute a “bubble,” said Robert Shiller, a Yale University economics professor who predicted the collapse of the U.S. housing market. “I would say we’re at record low” on long-term rates, the co-creator of the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index said today at a conference in Oslo. There has been “gradually increasing confidence in U.S. debt” in the past 30 years, he said. Demand for Treasuries has pushed U.S. government debt due in 10 years or more up 28 percent in the past 12 months, the most among 144 government-bond ... (full story)
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