‘Year Of The Bond’ Meme Powers $30 Billion Treasury Inflow

2023 was supposed to be the "year of the bond." The thesis behind that mantra was about as simple as investment rationales get: Last year was really (really) bad, and the year before that wasn't great either, so this year was likely to be better. Notwithstanding the old adage about bad things "coming in threes," 10-year US government bonds or their equivalent have never had three down years in a row in the (short) history of the republic. Ostensibly anyway, the odds favored a rebound. And t

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I am probably among a fortunate few for whom 75-80% of my annual investment income ($, not digits) represents new money available to invest. A third of those funds are donated to various (sorry, lefty) charities like food banks, sheltered housing, the arts and education. The rest of my dry powder is being invested in the trending higher rate FI market. I still get beat up on prices for what I already have but I’m seeing a two-year steady 8% annual rise in income, with 5% more this year already. I just hope rates keep going up because I don’t have sell and I can pause new investing any time for a month or two.