Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bonds have been falling ever since the Federal Reserve squeezed up interest rates last October. That is because whenever the cost of money climbs, bonds that had earlier sold at lower rates suddenly become less valuable than newer offerings that pay higher returns. But even those new bond offerings do not sell well. People are afraid to lock themselves into long-term fixed-income bonds; they figure that inflation will send interest rates still higher, and so they prefer to put their money into quick-in, quick-out investments that offer shorter terms or flexible yields. Bond yields may seem...
Fearful that inflation will continue and prices will keep falling, many once traditional bond buyers are investing elsewhere. Pension funds and insurance companies are putting more of their millions in the stock market; retirees, widows and other coupon clippers are switching into the safer and high-yielding money market funds, which pay about...
...decided to go East and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in bonds...
Safe, sane and stable, the $2 trillion bond market used to provide a sinecure for men of high breeding and low wattage while supporting orphans, saving widows from penury and generating far more money than the stock market did for corporations and governments. Now this primary source of long-term lending has been pulverized by the twin forces of inflation and soaring interest rates, and staid bond dealers talk like teen-agers trading bubble-gum cards or posters of Pop heroes. They speak of swapping "Bo Dereks" and "James Bonds," slang for big bond issues that mature...
...borrowers are finding it tough and extremely costly to raise money. The result: less spending on plants, schools, roads, hospitals and other private and public projects. This will have a broad impact on U.S. society, because it retards industrial expansion, research and innovation. At the same time, the bond decline shakes public confidence in the nation's financial fabric. People wonder, if bonds are not safe, secure investments, what...