Bubbles mean manias and irrational behavior Chinese real estate%3F Bubble. Treasury bonds%3F Probably not Economies can form bubbles%3B just ask the Japanese If you were strolling through London ...

The bubble in bonds is more about the potential for lost income opportunity if interest rates rise. It's important to have a strategy to address rising rates, but a bubble in bonds isn't like a ...

Investors expect bubbles in speculative assets like stocks and real estate A historic buying frenzy for government bonds has heightened worries of a potential bubble Past bond-market declines have ...

Bond bubble bust By . Jonathon Trugman. Published Nov. 25, 2012, 5:00 a.m. ET. There goes the nest egg. There’s a record $16.3 trillion of US debt and a good portion of that is sitting in baby ...

In 2009 investors were warned about bubbles: a bubble in Treasuries, a gold bubble and, finally, warnings of a rapidly expanding bubble in stocks. But I'm here to tell you about a monster bond ...

— -- Q: Why would investors buy bonds to diversify, when it's clear bonds are going to fall? A: Bond investors can absolutely identify with Mark Twain's famous quote about the reports of his ...

What a monumental time it has been for the bond market. After a 35-year bull market dating all the way back to 1981, the bond bubble has supposedly burst over the past week.

Bond bubble or not, investing in these CDs will give you the highest rates without the risk of rising interest rates. Rarely in investing can you get higher returns with less risk, so this is an ...

Bond market bubble argument #3: Finally, there is the argument that the flows into bonds are unsustainable. That could be, but again there is very little actual evidence because the money flowing ...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently told Bloomberg that we are entering a bond market bubble in the U.S., and all signs point to yes. In fact, I would add that what was once a ...

Thus, the "dumb money" that purchased bonds in 2010 outfoxed the smart money that forecast a bubble. (To be sure, bond buyers would have been better off yet--much better off--had they purchased ...

Fixed-income investors are playing defense. Surveys show they have a record weighting in short-term debt, whose prices are less sensitive to changes in interest rates than longer-maturity bonds ...