A recent article in the Wall Street Journal ponders bubbles throughout history. How I Got Burned by Beanie Babies By KAREN BLUMENTHAL In this decade, we have had more than our share of big-time booms and busts: the tech bubble, the housing bubble and, this year, what Warren Buffett has called the Treasury bubble. For [...]

The February issue of Futures Magazine features an article titled “Options Strategies for an Overshot Market” by Lind Plus Senior Market Strategists Frank D. Cholly and Frank J. Cholly. They discuss three strategies for coping with an overbought market, using “the exponential rise in Treasuries” at the end of 2008 as an example. Read the [...]

2009 Outlook: Confidence Returning–and Inflation by Matt Roma As we look ahead to 2009, I think there are reasons to be optimistic about the markets. We put an extremely volatile 2008 behind us. In the final trading sessions of the year, we saw high levels of volatility. While that can be partially attributed to light [...]

Treasury Bubble Part II: Three-Month Yield Turns Negative by Phil Streible & Richard Ilczyszyn Risk-aversion has been driving investors, and they have been rushing into U.S. Treasuries. Yields have been pushed down to historic lows across the yield curve, and in an unprecedented development, three-month Treasury bill yields have actually turned negative. The Treasury bubble [...]

The Treasury Bubble By Richard Ilczyszyn The fear and the volatility we’ve seen in the past few months in the stock market has driven investors to safe-haven instruments like U.S. Treasuries, and prices for Treasury bonds and notes have soared. It’s looking like the next big bubble. Like any bubble, I think it will eventually [...]