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The Great Financial Market Disconnect

The stock market gets all the financial news headlines, but it's the credit markets that hold the real power. Or to put it a more colorful way:
“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”
- James Carville

This never, EVER happens on Wall Street

It's one of the oldest rules in the book: The Public is always wrong.

I've only been watching the markets since the mid-90's, but I've never seen this rule broken...until last month.

The rule of Wall Street is the same as the rule of a Vegas casino: if you look around the table and you can't spot the mark, then you are the mark.
Basically the game works like this.

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