Thursday, January 19, 2012

Historical Long Term Interest Rates — 1790-2011


Barry Ritholtz posted this today. Reposting here for the record.
(h/t Keven Fathi via email)





Source: What Drives The Bond Market?
Chicago CFA Handout by Bianco Research LLC
January 18, 2011

Per a request in the comments, here are some historical charts of the national debt for comparison.

EconoMatters

Natural Born Conservative

Business Insider

What was that about high public debt correlating with high interest rates?

2 comments:

jeg3 said...

I would like to see US "debt" over-layed. Wasn't WWII and now high debt with low interest in contradiction with some financial thinking.

Tom Hickey said...

I just updated the post with historical charts of the national debt.