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5 min readBonds Are Warning Of A Global Inflation Crisis
Japan's 10-year yield hit 3% for the first time in three decades. Germany's reached its highest since 2011. France's climbed to levels not seen since 2008. British 30-year borrowing costs returned to where they stood in the 1990s. And the US 30-year yield recently touched its highest point since before the financial crisis. This is not a localized tremor—it is a synchronized global bond sell-off, and according to John Mauri, Chief Investment Officer at NFJ Investment Group, the message from the bond market is that the era of cheap money and quiescent inflation is over.
The Regime Shift from Cheap to Safe
Mauri argues that what investors are witnessing is not a temporary spike but a structural regime change. For years, the dominant investment paradigm favored whatever was cheapest—lowest cost labor, cheapest supply chains, lowest interest rates. Globalization acted as a massive deflationary force, importing cheap labor from China and suppressing price pressures across developed economies. That era has ended.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:16) **Market Vitals & Bond Sell-Off Context** - Ed Elson recaps the day’s market data and introduces the global bond sell-off as the central topic.
- 2 (03:43) **Guest Introduction: John Mauri on What the Bond Market Is Saying** - Ed introduces John Mauri, Chief Investment Officer at NFJ Investment Group, to decode the bond market’s message.
- 3 (04:05) **The Regime Shift: From "Cheapest" to "Safest"** - John Mauri argues the bond market is reacting to a fundamental regime shift, not just current events.
- 4 (05:16) **Iran, Oil, and the Broader Inflation Phenomenon** - John explains that the war in Iran is one key component of a larger inflationary trend driven by supply chain reordering.
- 5 (06:36) **The Fed's Impossible Task: Raising Rates Won't Fix It** - John explains why the Fed is stuck between a hawkish market and a problem that rate hikes can't solve.
- 6 (08:42) **Normalizing the Bond Market After a Historic Bubble** - John reframes the current situation as a normalization from an era of artificially low bond yields.
- 7 (09:18) **Scott Bessent's Bond Buyback Strategy: A Failed Fix?** - Ed and John analyze the Treasury Secretary’s attempt to lower borrowing costs via bond buybacks.
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Show Notes
Ed Elson is joined by John Mowrey to break down why bond yields have been rising and what it would mean for investors if they continue to increase. Then, Alex Heath returns to unpack his interview with Sam Altman. Finally, Ed shares his thoughts on why bond investors are fed up with the Trump administration.
John Mowrey is the Chief Investment Officer at NFJ Investment Group. Alex Heath is the author of the Sources newsletter and host of the Sources podcast.
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