{"id":273974,"date":"2025-04-12T17:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/economic-policy-uncertainty-hits-record-high\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:53","slug":"economic-policy-uncertainty-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/economic-policy-uncertainty-hits-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Policy Uncertainty Hits Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-56353\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Even if likely to be revised, it\u2019s still remarkable. VIX down as high yield credit spread rises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/epu_vix_pix12.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56351\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/epu_vix_pix12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/epu_vix_pix12.png 864w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/epu_vix_pix12-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/epu_vix_pix12-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/epu_vix_pix12-624x405.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a picture of credit risk spread for high yield corporate bonds over the same period (BofA):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icebofahiyieldspread.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56354\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icebofahiyieldspread.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icebofahiyieldspread.png 1140w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icebofahiyieldspread-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icebofahiyieldspread-1024x418.png 1024w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icebofahiyieldspread-768x313.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icebofahiyieldspread-624x255.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/04\/economic-policy-uncertainty-hits-record-high\" title=\"9:12 am\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-04-12T09:12:00-07:00\">April 12, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/04\/economic-policy-uncertainty-hits-record-high\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Even if likely to be revised, it\u2019s still remarkable. VIX down as high yield credit spread rises. \u00a0 And here\u2019s a picture of credit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}