Wealthion, Released on 10/18/23

When today’s guest expert appeared last on this channel, he warned about a potential moment when the bond market would lose faith in the Fed’s ability to tame inflation, at which point it would start pushing yields substantially higher. Well, long bond yields have indeed surged over the past few months, setting US Treasury bonds up for what looks like an unprecedented third consecutive year of losses — something that has never happened before in US history. Are we indeed at the point where the bond market’s confidence in the Fed has broken? Or is this an exceptionally attractive time to buy long bonds, as a number of other experts are now saying? For answers to this important question, we welcome investor and analyst Bill Fleckenstein of Fleckenstein Capital back to the program.

Bill Fleckenstein is the President of Fleckenstein Capital and writes a popular column ‘Contrarian Chronicles’ for MSN Money as well as the daily Market Rap column for his website: Fleckenstein Capital. Bill has appeared at one time or another in virtually all financial media including Bloomberg, CNBC, The New York Times, MSN, Marketwatch, Barron’s and more. Bill is a highly sought after speaker, successful author of Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve and has been in the financial sector for over 25 years.

Adam Taggart is the Founder of Wealthion. He is also Co-Founder and former President of Peak Prosperity. Adam is an experienced Silicon Valley internet executive and Stanford MBA. Prior to partnering with Chris Martenson (Adam was General Manager of our earlier site, ChrisMartenson.com), he was a Vice President at Yahoo!, a company he served for nine years. Before that, he did the ‘startup thing’ (mySimon.com, sold to CNET in 2001). As a fresh-faced graduate from Brown University in the early 1990s, Adam got a first-hand look at all that was broken with Wall Street as an investment banking analyst for Merrill Lynch. Most importantly, he’s a devoted husband and dad.

  bond market, debt crisis, economy, interest rates