{"id":133,"date":"2012-01-14T22:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/?p=133"},"modified":"2012-01-14T22:23:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T21:23:05","slug":"why-are-interest-rates-so-low-january-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/2012\/01\/14\/why-are-interest-rates-so-low-january-12-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Interest Rates so low&#8230;January 12, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Why  are interest rates so low? <\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<div>The  very short-term interest rate on debt securities of one year to maturity or  less, when adjusted for risk, are near or less than 1%, with some approaching  zero percent. Despite the increasing  threat of sovereign risk, U.S. Government 10 years to maturity trade with a  yield around 2% (having gone as low as 1.82% in recent weeks).<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"http:\/\/econnewsletter.com\/110101.html\" href=\"http:\/\/econnewsletter.com\/110101.html\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large\">http:\/\/econnewsletter.com\/110101.html<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are interest rates so low? The very short-term interest rate on debt securities of one year to maturity or less, when adjusted for risk, are near or less than 1%, with some approaching zero percent. Despite the increasing threat of sovereign risk, U.S. Government 10 years to maturity trade with a yield around 2% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,56,1],"tags":[66,57,3738,10239,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/newparadigm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}