"what should you do to avoid being an idiot or a swine? Merely this: You should do something great, you should lay aside all the foolishness of a more of less long existence, you should become resigned to the fact that you will seem ridiculous to a race of janitors and bureaucrats if you are to enter the service of Splendor. Then you will know what it means to be the friend of God. The friend of God!"
Léon Bloy
29 May 2013
US 10 Year Note Yield Very Long Term Chart
One picture is worth 1000 words.
This puts some teeth in the concept of 'historic lows.'