Talk Your Book: The Bubble Will Get Bigger
Animal Spirits Podcast
Why Have Yields Fallen This Year?
Ben asks why 10-year yields fell from 5% to ~4% and Arone attributes it to cooling growth expectations, term premium shifts, and Fed actions.
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Michael Arone, Chief Investment Strategist and Managing Director at State Street Investment Management to discuss: government spending, bailouts, S&P 500®, stock market concentration, the AI bubble and much more.
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