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What’s going on with bonds is interesting. It used to be that as bonds eroded, interest rates went up, and then banks would roll around in a bull-gasm. These days, however, even the nimrods who buy equities are realizing that higher interest rates are going to lead to global asset death. Here we see TLT continue to break down.
Bonds have been in a free-fall since Powell spoke on Wednesday, which means that interest rates are zipping higher.
The first property I ever bought in my life was a small house – – I think it’s called a “patio home” since it’s a freestanding structure, but it’s a part of a bunch of homes on a large plot of land. It was way back in 1989, and I was recently down there in Sunnyvale and drove by it.
I was looking at old posts of mine, and I stumbled upon one in which I was examining overpriced properties around here. Here was one of them, which has been sitting, unpurchased, for five years now:
I present to you Pennsylvania Real Estate (symbol PEI) with a suggested stop-loss price of $3.55:
