Just a few numbers

[Mac1958]

The 10-Year Treasury rate as I type this: 4.72%
The 10-Year Treasury rate when the Meltdown began, Feb 2007: 4.69%

A positive thinker would be wondering if we're getting closer and closer to, wait for it, "normal".

I guess we'll see.

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10 Year Treasury Rate - 54 Year Historical Chart

Interactive chart showing the daily 10 year treasury yield back to 1962. The 10 year treasury is the benchmark used to decide mortgage rates across the U.S. and is the most liquid and widely traded bond in the world.

www.macrotrends.net

The U.S. Financial Crisis

The financial meltdown that started with the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble had worldwide economic repercussions, including recessions, far-reaching regulations, and deep-seated political discon…

www.cfr.org

 

[1srelluc]

The fed was asleep at the switch.....Home mortgage rates should be about what they are now for the last six years or so.

The reason available home prices rose to the levels we are seeing now was cheap interest.

Of course prices have not come down with rising rates due to housing shortage caused by a number of factors, high rates being just one of them.

 

[toobfreak]

A positive thinker would be wondering if we're getting closer and closer to, wait for it, "normal".

No amount of positive thinking in this universe will ever equate you with "normal."

The economy is a lot more than just the treasury rate, Spud.

 

[Mac1958]

No amount of positive thinking in this universe will ever equate you with "normal."

The economy is a lot more than just the treasury rate, Spud.

Holy crap, calm down, slugger. I clearly wasn't drawing any conclusions about the current economy. Did you miss the "I guess we'll see" part?

I was actually talking about something else, but I know you lack the capacity to understand, so I won't waste my time.

I have you so desperate to attack and insult that you're flailing like a child. Calm down. You can't hurt me. You're just a Trumpster.

 

[luiza]

The Margin Call Moment: World Now Facing Up To $70 Trillion In Global Losses​

Find a good slant for that .

The point is missed when Numpties imagine WW3 could start from the troubles in Ukraine . Try Wall and Threadneedle Streets instead .

 

[toobfreak]

I was actually talking about something else, but I know you lack the capacity to understand, so I won't waste my time.

Yes, I was almost ready to ask you what you could say about proton-proton decay in the stellar dynamics of baryogenesis of the Main Sequence of the Hertzsprung-Russell path of stellar evolution, but then I remembered I'm much too much the dimwit to even ask the question much less grasp your wise and erudite answers.

 

[Mac1958]

Yes, I was almost ready to ask you what you could say about proton-proton decay in the stellar dynamics of baryogenesis of the Main Sequence of the Hertzsprung-Russell path of stellar evolution, but then I remembered I'm much too much the dimwit to even ask the question much less grasp your wise and erudite answers.

Good.

 

[toobfreak]

Good.

You have no truck with good.

 

[toobfreak]

Good.

So Mac, tell this dimwitted simpleton again just why main sequence stars convert oxygen to silicon and what this means for the distribution of heavy elements in the universe?

No heavy details or math needed, just the basic reasons.

 

[toobfreak]

Good.

Just the basic reasons, Mac. You know, dumb it down for a poor slob like me.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yes, I was almost ready to ask you what you could say about proton-proton decay in the stellar dynamics of baryogenesis of the Main Sequence of the Hertzsprung-Russell path of stellar evolution, but then I remembered I'm much too much the dimwit to even ask the question much less grasp your wise and erudite answers.

Protons decay?

 

[toobfreak]

Good.

Maybe you can start by explaining how the binding energy of matter leads to the accumulation of iron in stellar cores as well as the higher elements decaying back towards same?

 

[toobfreak]

Protons decay?

Yes, there is theoretical analysis which predicts the possibility.

 

[toobfreak]

Good.

Spit it out Mac.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yes, there is theoretical analysis which predicts the possibility.

I always thought proton stability was only surpassed by the ability of the non-living to vote for a democrat

Thank you for that

 

[Mac1958]

Spit it out Mac.

Yikes. I can see how hard you're trying to make me think that you're intelligent.

I just don't care.

All of this, because I made an accurate, factual comment about the current yield of the 10 year Treasury.

You're trying too hard. Again: I just don't care.

 

[Mac-7]

The 10-Year Treasury rate as I type this: 4.72%
The 10-Year Treasury rate when the Meltdown began, Feb 2007: 4.69%

A positive thinker would be wondering if we're getting closer and closer to, wait for it, "normal".

I guess we'll see.

===========

10 Year Treasury Rate - 54 Year Historical Chart

Interactive chart showing the daily 10 year treasury yield back to 1962. The 10 year treasury is the benchmark used to decide mortgage rates across the U.S. and is the most liquid and widely traded bond in the world.

www.macrotrends.net

The U.S. Financial Crisis

The financial meltdown that started with the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble had worldwide economic repercussions, including recessions, far-reaching regulations, and deep-seated political discon…

www.cfr.org

Naturally the man you halped to install as president in 2020 will claim credit for this

And you will have to agree since you voted for biden

 

[toobfreak]

Yikes. I can see how hard you're trying to make me think that you're intelligent.

Not at all. Just pointing out what an idiotic, narrow-minded fop you really are.

I just don't care.

You can't afford to care. You just don't know shit.
So like any other bot, you spew crap then run away from it.
Run Mac, run.

 

[Mac1958]

Not at all. Just pointing out what an idiotic, narrow-minded fop you really are.



You can't afford to care. You just don't know shit.
So like any other bot, you spew crap then run away from it.
Run Mac, run.

Whatever you'd like.

Too much drama for me.

 

[Mac1958]

For the record, there is absolutely nothing political about the OP. The actual suggestion is that interest rates may have rediscovered their point of historical equilibrium, after such a long period of artificially cheap money. That would be a good thing, because it certainly appears that cheap money can distort markets. Big time.

I realize that people who are consumed by a one-sided political ideology view the world through that lens, and assume that everyone else does too. That's incorrect, and it must be a freakin' lousy way to go through life.