Bond Vigilantes

When we started the Bond Vigilantes blog back towards the end of 2006, the world looked pretty different – and even the term “bond vigilantes” had fallen out of use. Looking back at our first couple of months of blogging, we were writing about the first signs of weakness in the Chicago housing market, our worries about aggressive lending by the UK banks, and the new developments in the supercharged CDO market. But this was still a world in which Central Bankers had “won” the war on inflation after a two decade long battle, where the term “sovereign debt crisis” was solely used in relation to the emerging markets, and where Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns sat at the top table of global investment banks.