The universal opinion now is that the bond bear market ended months ago, and bonds are an amazingly cheap investment, protected by the pristine reputation of the U.S. of A.
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As a lifelong freak, this is not my view, in spite of what eight billion other humans think. I say interest rates are going to go up, not down, and bonds will continue to wither away from here.
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