Why are bonds doing so bad right now?

Matthew Smit asked:
People aren’t buying stocks right now. And it seems nonsensical to be putting my 401k dollars in a money market fund where they will earn 0.05%. Bonds seems like the obvious safe play here with decent returns. Yet, they have been doing poorly the last couple weeks. I have [...]

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