Interest rates, that is, from the bottom left to the upper right, a full reversal of the former trend from the top left to the bottom right.As I noted when I started talking about this its not US-centric either; there is a great deal (although I'm sure its not perfectly-so) of synchronicity across national boundaries. The same pattern on the same time scale and alignment is visible in Gilts, for example, which is of course British. Britain's markets have public data going back a long time as do those of the United States; I'm sure others do too but I'm not an expert on those.This matters a great deal because the scheme over the last 20 or so years was greatly intertwined with Japan, which has a central.......(Click link to read more)