Relevant:
- Investors Plow Into Junk Bonds; Junk Bond Sales at Record Highs
- Tight Spot for Fed, Blind Spot for Investors
- Greenspan hits at critics over housing crisis
- Investors Are Only Interested In High-Yield Junk
- Bill Gross says QE3 Unlikely Even as Job Growth Slows; Gross Still Shuns Treasuries, Likes Dividend Yielding Equities
2013-02-08 — mybudget360.com
How bad have things gotten? High yield bonds (i.e., junk bonds) were yielding something like 20+ percent in 2008. Today they are pulling in 5 percent or what a standard CD was yielding in the early 2000s. Are we really in such a stable market? We are in a period of exuberance and Greenspan can tell us how that went in the early part of the 2000s.
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