The stock market is glamorous, trading bits of ownership of corporations, many with glittering names - Apple, Microsoft, Boeing. The bond market is boring.
Or used to be. It is becoming scary in the way it affects the functioning of democracy. As in turbulent France. And perhaps eventually in the United States.
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