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Front Row Seats to the Next Bubble

Ryan Krueger Oct 17, 2008 3:58 pm


		For now, more supply than demand for long-dated treasuries.

When I wrote Opportunity, Bubble, or Both? I believed the answer was both: Certain stocks had bottomed -- or were in the process of being thrown overboard -- by funds shipwrecked on the mountains of margin (primarily energy and materials). I cited MLPs as an unusually shiny treasure tossed to the bottom of the margin clerk’s ocean floor.

But this isn't one of those.

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Actually it’s the other one. I highlighted the potential of this powerful reversal circled above that day and it has followed through. This is the Proshares Ultrashort Lehman 20+ Year Treasury (TBT). It goes up when long-term treasuries go down.

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I have zero doubt there will be powerful data to support fears of deflation for quite a while, and overnight disasters where bonds will be well-bid. But I think the front-row seats from which to watch the building of the next bubble intrigue me even more.

I'll be surprised if we look back in 3 to 5 years and say, "What a great deal it was for those lucky souls who locked up 4% on the 30-Year Treasury - especially since they were running into each other to buy that safety." I’m simply not sure how safe that will look by then, at a time when inflation might be entering from stage left.

Currently, I'm rather uninterested in the debate of deflation or inflation, when, where, and whether bonds are being sold to buy stocks. Instead, I'm sticking to one of our most important trading rules: Do more of what's working, less of what's not.

And right now, for the first time in a long time, long-dated treasuries are being offered with more supply than demand.


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John Mcmillan

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10-17-2008, 5:43 pm
You are absolutely right. The bubble in Treasuries is mind-blowing. The most overvalued assets in the world... If debt destruction continues and the Fed can't stop it there soon won't be enough money around to buy all these Treasuries Read More

Kurt Schoeneman

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10-20-2008, 11:40 pm
Of course, the Fed could always buy them. Then what? Read More


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