# Prof. Richard Sylla explains why interest rate patterns from the 1950s are relevant today

1 Faculty News June 20, 2013 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters TV](http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/06/20/reuters-tv-how-to-play-the-feds-tapering-timeline?videoId=243488713&videoChannel=118058) -- "You should look at \[the 1950s\] because that's a period when not quickly but just gradually, long-term government bond interest rates trended up from 2 1/2 percent, where they were at the beginning of the period, to between 4 1/4 and 5 percent toward the end of the period, and while that was happening, the stock market had a great boom."

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