The sell-off in the bond market, which is sending yields skyrocketing, is already surpassing some of the worst market crashes of recent times.
According to Bloomberg, losses on 10-year Treasury bonds have been 46% since the start of 2020, while 30-year bonds have dropped 53%. This is almost identical to the losses seen in the stock-market crashes of the last few years, when stocks dropped 49% following the collapse of the Dot-com bubble and 57% after the crash of 2008.
Long-term treasuries, on the other hand, have seen one of the worst losses in history, with losses that are more than double what they were in 1981 when yields were near 16%.
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