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With many worried about hyper inflation due to endless bailouts and government spending why are treasury yields fairly low and have actually fallen over the past several months? Most likely the answer is in the short to intermediate term (less than 7 years or so) deflation is a bigger threat than...

Many economists are debating if this recovery will be a "U", "V", "L", or even a "square root" shaped recovery. These of course are all describing how a chart would look if looking at GDP Growth, stock performance, etc. through time. I feel like introducing one more shape into the mix, a "BS"...

John Hussman of The Hussman Funds sees value in short and medium term US Treasuries. Mr. Hussman states "Presently, the yield curve is so steep and incipient inflation pressures are sufficiently weak that Treasuries shorter than about 10-years in maturity have reasonable (though not unusually...