Barbie > TINA

[weighingmachine]

Katie Martin in the FT today -

“Two years ago, to get a 5 per cent return, you literally had to look to lending to the government of Iraq. Now you get that on cash.”

and

"For the first time in roughly 25 years, we’re paid not to have a view,”

 

Funniest bit
“A year ago, I tried to make the acronym of choice Bonds — Buying Ordinary Notes and Debt Securities. Sadly, this failed. Too boring. But step forward Kevin Gordon, an analyst at Charles Schwab in New York who emailed to suggest Barbara — Bonds Are Really Back And Really Attractive. At a slight stretch to tap in to the zeitgeist, you can even bend this to Bonds Are Really Back In Earnest, or Barbie.

 

This acronym has a chance of sticking. We can dream. In an ideal world, we would see Peter Oppenheimer, chief equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, opine on the matter, hitting the pop culture/markets nerd meme mother lode.

 

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