Later Is Now: Profiting from Rising Interest Rates

"But “sooner or later” is a nearly useless foresight. So far, as Treasury bonds were concerned, the fear brought on by the bursting of the housing bubble, tumbling stock prices, the near-death experiences of large financial institutions, and the well-publicized bailouts of public companies trumped any concerns about inflation somewhere in the future. The compelling desire, especially among institutional investors, was to escape default risk, and that meant buying Treasuries. Inflation was a hypothetical event that could be dealt with later."