Current：Home > NewsWhat the "bonkers" bond market means for you -Secure Growth Solutions
What the "bonkers" bond market means for you
View
Date：2025-04-14 22:49:54
Welcome to the Financial Markets Theme Park! That ride with the 250-foot drop over there is the stock market. The one with all the twists and turns and loop-the-loops? Those are junk bonds. And that little train that goes around the park? That's the U.S. bond market. Well, until recently.
That slow-plodding train has turned into a rickety roller coaster ride for investors. We head to the theme park to explain.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts and NPR One.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
veryGood！ (6)
Related
- EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
- Shopify's new tool shows employees the cost of unnecessary meetings
- After Explosion, Freeport LNG Rejoins the Gulf Coast Energy Export Boom
- Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Its Water Rights in Call For Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles
- Apple iOS 18.2: What to know about top features, including Genmoji, AI updates
- Patrick and Brittany Mahomes Are a Winning Team on ESPYS 2023 Red Carpet
- Holiday Traditions in the Forest Revive Spiritual Relationships with Nature, and Heal Planetary Wounds
- Why It’s Time to Officially Get Over Your EV Range Anxiety
- Friday the 13th luck? 13 past Mega Millions jackpot wins in December. See top 10 lottery prizes
- Texas Project Will Use Wind to Make Fuel Out of Water
Ranking
- South Korea's acting president moves to reassure allies, calm markets after Yoon impeachment
- Peacock hikes streaming prices for first time since launch in 2020
- Peacock hikes streaming prices for first time since launch in 2020
- Nikki and Brie Garcia Share the Story Behind Their Name Change
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- Why the Language of Climate Change Matters
- Coal Ash Along the Shores of the Great Lakes Threatens Water Quality as Residents Rally for Change
- Flood-Prone Communities in Virginia May Lose a Lifeline if Governor Pulls State Out of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Recommendation
'As foretold in the prophecy': Elon Musk and internet react as Tesla stock hits $420 all
Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas
To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California
Twice as Much Land in Developing Nations Will be Swamped by Rising Seas than Previously Projected, New Research Shows
Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
-
Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas
Appeals court halts order barring Biden administration communications with social media companies
Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Its Water Rights in Call For Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles