Economics

Bond Market Junks ‘New Paradigm’ Talk, Frets About Too-Tight Fed

  • Slide in Treasury yields shows investors have doubts on growth
  • ‘The Fed’s about to exit’ -- but can the economy handle it?
Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg
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When long-term interest rates were surging earlier this year, Federal Reserve officials cheerfully interpreted the move as a vote of confidence in the U.S. economic outlook.