I have written quite a couple pieces over the years about the professional gloom-and-doom crowd, so this is hardly a new subject for me. It came up again recently when I was speaking with some new prospects who seemed permanently plugged into social media accounts predicting the next market crash, recession, currency crisis or financial…

The strange thing about this market is that the bond market is starting to look more interesting than the stock market. Long-term Treasury yields surged with the 30-year briefly above 5.30% and the 10-year ending the week at 4.74%. The Treasury responded by doubling its long-bond buybacks. Deutsche Bank described the move, together with the…