John Batchelor 09-03 segment 9.mp3 Guest: Brett Arends of Market Watch (Return on Investment). Bond Market Anxiety and Federal Reserve Pressures Brett Arends explains the bond market's current unhappiness stems from unsustainable national debt and uncerta
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:42.4 | Break the glass. Brett Arons of MarketWatch return on investment joins. I've missed Brett, but we've had a 9% rally in the equities market through the summer months. |
| 0:46.0 | Everything was rosy, and then break the glass. |
| 0:46.8 | Welcome, Brett. |
| 0:51.4 | The breaking glass this time begins with the bond market. |
| 0:56.5 | As I understand it right now, the bond market is unhappy. They find reasons to be unhappy. Everything's bad no matter what's good. Everything's good, no matter what's |
| 1:03.4 | bad. And right now we're in that bad, bad, bad stage. What are they watching for? What are they |
| 1:09.3 | looking for? How did we get here all of a sudden? Good evening to you, Brett. Good evening. Good evening. And as usual, when I come on your program, John, I have to I have to apologize to your listeners, because whenever I'm on, it means that they've lost money on something. At the moment, it's the bond market. You and I have talked a lot when the stock market has fallen out of bed, but at the moment, |
| 1:29.3 | it's the bond market. |
| 1:30.7 | And the bond market really has been, has not recovered from the boom it enjoyed last |
| 1:38.5 | decade when we had zero percent interest rates and bonds were up and the yields were very, very low, interest rates |
| 1:47.9 | were low, and, you know, your bonds look great. |
| 1:51.6 | And then they were basically overpriced. |
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