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Personal Finance and Investing

bucolic_frolic

(50,904 posts) Sun May 4, 2025, 09:53 AM May 4

Fertile crop of investing guru advice this weekend. [View all]

Kathy Wood dropped a video calling for recession as unemployment rolls out unevenly based on declining profitability, but still touting the Laffer Curve as the basis for a Bull Run after that. I won't post the link. You know enough already.

Bravos Research, which is a data driven advisory firm from Luxembourg (I think), sees the crisis in US Treasuries.

Wealth Track has a new expert on the effects of tariffs globally.

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Fertile crop of investing guru advice this weekend. [View all] bucolic_frolic May 4 OP

Bond prices have fallen by 50 percent since 2020? I have my doubts. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 4 #1

Well, ChatGPT concurs on the 50% decline. Look at the TLT chart. bucolic_frolic May 4 #2

Oh, an ETF, not the bonds themselves. mahatmakanejeeves May 4 #3

You would also know that Treasury Direct is not an open market price. It's at issue. bucolic_frolic May 4 #4

Thanks. I don't know who publishes those prices anymore, for mahatmakanejeeves May 4 #5

And that doesn't take into account the PURCHASING POWER of the bonds, which have fallen by even more progree May 4 #6

And even that is optimistic if you're buying a new car or a new roof! bucolic_frolic May 4 #7