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"The 60/40 portfolio is dead", checked against the last five years
One bad joint year for stocks and bonds does not settle a decades-long argument. We ran the longer window.
Draft entry. The full analysis for this piece ships with the data pipeline; the dataset it grades against is being assembled.
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