Ben Casselman
speaker
242 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Rachel, I love a challenge.
But I I confess that pretty much all day I was sitting here waiting for a message from you or somebody on the team being like, you know what?
We
Never mind.
Too hard.
market?
Yeah, the bond market, we talk about it less than the stock market in part because it's confusing.
And I'm gonna do my best as we talk here to make it less confusing.
I'm sure you'll agree.
But in many ways, it is more important than the stock market.
It's arguably the most important market on earth.
And your financial life is tied to the bond market, whether or not you know it.
For one thing, because you've probably got some bonds somewhere in your retirement portfolio.
If you've got a four oh one K, if you've got an IRA, chances are there's some bonds in there, so it matters there.
Even if you don't even realize it, even if you never made a decision to go invest in bonds, it's probably in your portfolio somewhere.
If you've got a pension, your pension is probably invested in bonds.
But also because bond yields, and we'll talk about what that means in a second, I promise.
Basically decide how much it costs to borrow money everywhere else in the financial system.
So if you are planning on buying a house and you want to get a mortgage, that interest rate is going to be determined by the bond market.
If you want to buy a car, borrow money for student loans, any of these things, open a new business, all of that is going to be based on what happens in this.
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