Summary: What does a flat yield curve mean? Photo: Billy Hathorn; Source: Wikipedia 130 years ago the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbot wrote the novella “Flatland” about a two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric shapes. There’s no depth in Flatland, only height and width. It seems like investors today are entering a “flatland” of their own. Normally, long-term bonds yield significantly more than short-term bonds. We call this the “yield curve,” because it curves downwards. A year ago, 10-year US […]
