Banks have been riding a steep yield curve, meaning they borrow money at virtually no cost from the government and lend it out or invest it in higher-earning assets, profiting from the difference.

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Steep yield curve, better-flowing credit markets.

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As banks make these loans that they're making now at this steep yield curve, they'll become more and more eager to make more loans, which will then ripple out through the world and will have an expansive world that's exactly the reverse of the function that got us here.

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With the yield curve steep, leading economic indicators still rising month to month and sentiment skewered skeptical, we have years of bull ahead.

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With the yield curve as steep as ever, this bank's gross profit on lending will expand.

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Considering that quantitative easing is effectively the same as an interest rate cut below a zero bound, the yield curve is very steep even with 10-year yields just below 2%.

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