DFAC - The Stock Market: Dazed And Confused To The Max

• Two key historic characteristics of the stock market: It works to confuse and confound the maximum number of people most of the time, while providing excellent long-term returns.
• So-called “hawkish” commentary by the Fed is credited with sending stocks into a tailspin, while strangely enough, buyers showed up for the US Treasury 10-year, whose yield plummeted to a weekly close at 1.44%, down from 1.59% mid-week.
• Historically, inflation-adjusted (real) stock performance has far outstripped bond performance. Surprisingly, that has not been the case for the past two decades.
• Is the noise and confusion a diversion from something already priced into the market?

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