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guard your card.com. I like to reiterate this idea. We're calling it the golden age of fixed income.

It's really the golden age of income. There is definitely uncertainty today.

That kind of slowdown does not dent credit quality in the fixed income market.

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast.

I'm Jack Howe.

And the voice you just heard is Russ Brownback.

He's the co-portfolio manager of the $41 billion black rock strategic income

opportunities fund. He's going to talk to us today about why he believes we're in the golden

age of income, even though fixed income took a hit this past week. You know, it looked pretty golden

was gold and Bitcoin. Bonds not so much. But

Russ sees that as an opportunity. We'll talk about it. Listening in is our audio producer, Alexis

Moore. Hi, Alexis. Hey, Jack. I want to talk about the ruckus in the bond market.

I've got all the sober, serious financial news.

There seems to be a disruption in my news flow about what's going on with light, fluffy stuff and pop-cultry stuff.

What is the latest?

What's going on this week in the rest of the world that I need to know about?

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