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Why religious, sewage and waste disposal, and amusement and recreation construction spending you might ask?
1. We have lost faith.
2. The @#$% is hitting the fan again.
3. We are not amused.
"Bond" is certainly having a good year so far (the last few weeks in particular). Shocking.
The 20-year TIPS is back under 1%. Let's just blame the next 20 years on a few months of cold weather and call it good.
This is not investment advice.
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St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart
Tongue-in-cheek! Well, partly.
ReplyDeleteToday's ~2% market drop would have been an ~ 5% drop a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteWe need more blind faith!
mab,
ReplyDeleteFirst the Denber Super Bowl blowout, and now this?
How much more blind faith can we take? ;)
Denber? Denver? It's all good, lol. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteHow much more blind faith can we take?
ReplyDeleteI don't know! Maybe we need some more (un)intelligent design! Perhaps randomness, like free markets, always leads to the best outcomes.
It's not the fall that kills you, it's the landing! The crash landing!
Commenters on CRs blog used to jokingly post "down goes Frazier" on days like this. Of course, the same 35 point market drops were 5% then rather than 2% today.
ReplyDeletemab,
ReplyDeleteThe market is clearly RATtled. Risk on investors are getting MICEd and diced!
It hasn't made a roDENT in the great bond "bubble" though, much to the ongoing dismay of Jeremy Siegel!