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Wealth Awakening

One Fed Jobs Report Shook Global Assets! Understanding the "Alchemy of Interest Rates"

In the early hours of June 6, many people woke up to find their money gone—gold plunged, silver plunged, U.S. stocks plunged, Bitcoin plunged—every asset dived at the same time. The fuse was just one U.S. jobs data print: way above market expectations. Isn't good economic news supposed to be bullish? Wrong. The most counter-intuitive corner of capital markets is exactly this: sometimes good news is the biggest bad news. This article breaks down the underlying logic of "the alchemy of interest rates," tells you why one jobs report can shake global assets, and shows retail investors how to respond to this seemingly irrational market.

7 min
Wealth Awakening

Buy the Dip on US Treasury ETFs? Three Duration Blind Spots That Can Shrink Your Principal by 30%

Hundreds of thousands of people in Taiwan keep buying the dip on long-duration US Treasury ETFs without realizing that products with a 15-to-20-year duration can cut your principal in half in a rising-rate environment, just as the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) lost more than 50% from its 2020 high to its 2023 low. This article breaks down three blind spots you must understand before adding more: the math of duration times interest-rate moves that decides your maximum drawdown, the trap where yield does not equal total return and monthly distributions can come out of your own principal, and the hidden costs of FX hedging and premium/discount mechanics that are specific to Taiwan-listed US Treasury ETFs. It provides four iron rules and a four-step action plan to help you decide whether buy-the-dip is right for your situation, plus an extreme-scenario backup plan to keep your retirement savings from getting trapped by rates you cannot control.

13 min