<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Plain Markets — Finance notes</title><description>One narrow question per note, including where the relationship stops holding.</description><link>https://mnllab.com/</link><item><title>Why do bond prices fall when yields rise?</title><link>https://mnllab.com/notes/why-do-bond-prices-fall-when-yields-rise/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mnllab.com/notes/why-do-bond-prices-fall-when-yields-rise/</guid><description>Higher yields usually mean lower fixed-rate bond prices, but the shortcut can fail when the yield or cash flows being compared are different.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:04:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Finance notes</category><author>Ryan Kim</author></item><item><title>Why does gold often rise when the dollar falls?</title><link>https://mnllab.com/notes/why-gold-rises-when-dollar-falls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mnllab.com/notes/why-gold-rises-when-dollar-falls/</guid><description>Gold is quoted in dollars, so a weaker dollar mechanically lifts the gold price — but the link is a tendency, not a rule, and it breaks in predictable ways.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Finance notes</category><author>Ryan Kim</author></item></channel></rss>