The 5% Bond Market Means Pain Is Heading Everyone’s Way (Repeat)
The impact will be felt in everything from shoppers’ pockets to company balance sheets
Pedestrians and shoppers in the SoHo neighborhood of New York.
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Not so long ago, families, businesses and governments were effectively living in a world of free money.
The US Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate was zero, while central banks in Europe and Asia even ran negative rates to stimulate economic growth after the financial crisis and through the pandemic.