Bonds are boring. Even stocks are livelier. The S&P 500 has more than tripled since the COVID low in 2020. If you bought Nvidia back then, you are probably reading this while floating on your yacht in the Caribbean. But stocks are a two-way street. You lost more than half your money in 2007-9 during the “financial crisis” that resulted from the wildly inflated housing market — and a whole lot of fraud.
For the folks who can’t take wild fluctuations in the value of their savings, bonds are the solution. Their value goes a few percentage points up or down each year and they deliver modest amounts of interest. They are designed to neither make you rich, nor leave you in poverty. But they are interesting in their own right, as a thermometer measuring the health of our economy.
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