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The Bond Market Is the Truth Teller No One Heeds, Feat. George Goncalves
A veteran bond strategist gives his take on why the bond market has a better read than equities on short-term and long-term macro trends.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 9:38 a.m. Published Jul 30, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
A veteran bond strategist gives his take on why the bond market has a better read than equities on short-term and long-term macro trends.
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Today on the Brief:
- More bad news from jobless claims and the GDP
- The big tech hearing was a whole bunch of nothing; watch TikTok instead
- Robinhood dives into Kodak (but so do illegal insider traders)
Our main conversation is with independent bond strategist George Goncalves.
We discuss:
- How the bond market watches Federal Reserve meetings
- What, if anything, was new about this week’s FOMC meeting
- What it means that the bond market and equities market tell different stories
- Why the bond market has been telling a long-term story of slowing growth
- Whether institutional investors are actually moving away from government debt and into gold
- Why Judy Shelton should have a place on the Federal Reserve
See also: As Economic Indicators Get Worse, the US Revs Up the Next Multi-Trillion Stimulus
Find our guest online:
Twitter: @bondstrategist
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