Stocks beat bonds. A man proved it in 1924. The bond market is relearning it now
In 1924, a Wall Street analyst named Edgar Lawrence Smith sat down to prove something obvious. Bonds were safer than stocks. Everyone knew it. The smart money knew it. The textbooks said it. His job was simply to run the numbers and confirm what the financial establishment already believed. He couldn’t do it. What Smith …
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