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Erratum: when investors sell long term bonds it increases their yield. Low price == high yield.

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Yeah, I missed that one. Thanks for the correction. Some aspects of financial investing, especially when up seems to mean down and front seems to mean back make my math challenged brain ache.

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The finance world makes my brain hurt as well and I have a theoretical physics degree. Lot's of weird conventions left over from when lending at interest was illegal.

And then there are those Supply/Demand diagrams. They would make more sense if price was the x axis.

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