Greenspan Predicts Bond Yields Rising As High As 5%

While the world has learned to take Alan Greenspan’s forecasts with a grain of salt, earlier today the former Fed chairman was on Bloomberg TV with another bombastic prediction, warning of a substantial surge in US long-term interest rates should “inflation take hold.”
In the interview, Greenspan said that ‘if the early stages of inflation, which are now developing, would take hold, you could get — fairly soon — a fairly major shift away from these extraordinarily low yields on 10-year notes, for example,’ Greenspan said in an interview on Bloomberg Television on Monday. ‘I think up in the area of 3 to 4, or 5 percent, eventually. That’s what it’s been historically.”
Greenspan emphasized his often-repeated point that such low rates are unsustainable in the longer run, and said that he sees nascent inflation as the possible end to the bond bull market. ‘We’re moving into the very early stages of inflation acceleration,’ Greenspan said. ‘That could be the trigger.’

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 7, 2016.