Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.
Paul McCulleyThe lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.
Paul McCulleyRemember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.
Paul McCulleyThe essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against inflation, and you always knew which way you wanted the inflation rate to go over the long run -- down.
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