Discussion Questions

• What does the current Treasury Yield Curve look like today?

You can click on this site and compare the yield curves from one period to another:

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/Pages/index.aspx(Links to an external site.)

• What does this say about the expectation of interest rates in the future?
• What does it say about inflation?
• How does it compare to the yield curve a month ago?
• A year ago?

Now look at the yield curve from November 20, 2006.

• What was this curve predicting?