WITH WORRISOME ECONOMIC NEWS INCREASING, ARE BONDS REALLY SAFER THAN STOCKS?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As the stock market goes nuts, media investment pundits have been telling us to "diversify your portfolio with bonds." Economist Professor Richard Wolff explains the difference between treasury bonds, ETF bond funds, corporate bonds, and how people can interact with them? Are they actually inherently safer than stocks?
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| 0:42.7 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:46.8 | Hey, let's get into geekonomics here. Professor Richard Wolff is on the line with us. |
| 0:52.0 | Our friend, the economist, the co-founder, democracywork.info, |
| 0:55.8 | and already Wolff with 2Fs.com, Prof Wolff on Twitter, with 2Fs, Professor Wolff. |
| 1:02.0 | We saw the stock market has dropped about 20%. |
| 1:05.7 | It's now, maybe it's bonds back a little bit, but it was officially in baritory for the few days. |
| 1:11.2 | Everybody on television, all the investment people and whatnot, we're saying, |
| 1:15.2 | well, you should diversify your portfolio with bonds. |
| 1:18.8 | So I wanted to do a deep dive into bonds. |
| 1:21.3 | You know, what is a treasury bond? |
| 1:23.2 | What's the difference between a bond and a bill? |
| 1:24.6 | What are these exchange-traded funds? |
| 1:27.4 | These bond funds? |
| 1:29.7 | What are corporate bonds? |
| 1:30.9 | And what role do they play in all this? |
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