Yield Curve 101
[By GREGOR AISCH and AMANDA COX]
The yield curve shows how much it costs the federal government to borrow money for a given amount of time, revealing the relationship between long- and short-term interest rates.
It is, inherently, a forecast for what the economy holds in the future — how much inflation there will be, for example, and how healthy growth will be over the years ahead — all embodied in the price of money today, tomorrow and many years from now.
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A 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts The Economic Future …
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