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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

As the risk-free rate rises, expected returns on equities will be pushed up, and holding all else constant, stock prices will go down., and the reverse will occur, when risk-free rates drop. Ultimately, a government that chooses to default is making a political choice, as much as it is an economic one.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

Barry Ritholtz

And so I went to business school, I decided to go to business school, get that formal education. But now we’re back to a more normal hurdle rate. 5% interest rates is not super high. I know you like to discuss there are different phases of the, of the, both the market and the economic cycle.

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