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The underappreciated irony of bond funds is that while they invest in bonds they don't behave like them. Bond funds cannot guarantee return of principal because, unlike individual bonds (and perhaps your ex), they never mature; bond-fund returns, unlike bonds held until maturity, are tied as much to...
Bond funds do have some good features. They are easy to buy and sell. The minimum investment is in the thousands--not the tens of thousands, as with many individual bonds. And in a stable interest-rate environment, bond funds really are a suitable bond substitute. Just make sure you...
Any measure of failure could upset the markets. For example, today's benign inflation and low interest rates are partly the result of cheap oil prices. And Wall Street expects that a defeated Iraq would be allowed to flood the world with oil to raise money to rebuild, which is...
On the lighter side -- if an all-female air force spraying debilitating nerve gas over Fort Knox can be considered lighter -- is Goldfinger (1964). Easily the best of the Bonds, and ahead of its time (sort of) with its man-hating, squadron-leading femme fatale, Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman). She...
So Buffett has been moving to protect against both risks. The T-bonds he bought last fall give him a hedge against deflation. Their value would soar if the economy soured and knocked down interest rates. The silver he just picked up gives him a hedge on the other side...