[GodGunsGuts]

It wasn't a trick question. I'm asking you for your considered opinion. Even if the CPI is understated by 300bpt, given the rapid rise in bond prices (plus coupon), would bond traders still come out on top IYO.

[Torie]

Numbers are numbers. But to assume the CPI is a shell game, and nobody knows that, and in fact, by buying bonds, you are losing purchasing power hugely over time, but despite that, you think the shell game will just exacerbate, in a mad innumeracy fogged bubble, and therefore, you can make money before the South Sea/tulip bubble collapses, is just nutter.<>p>

Bonds are bought and sold by green eye shade types. Trust me.