Buying Bonds Could Be the Single Most Important Investing Decision You Make for 10 Years

Today's investors seem to want upside, upside, and more upside. I get it.

After a generation of pathetically low interest rates and negligible returns on bonds, who can blame investors for ignoring the asset class that is actually much bigger than the stock market?

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However, I'm increasingly of the opinion that the U.S. Treasury Bond market might be giving away the biggest "free lunch" any of us have seen this century. There's risk to anything and everything in investing. But this might be an opinion we look back on a decade from now and realize "wow, that was a no brainer. It just didn't seem that way at the time, so many people ignored it."

Here's what I'm referring to. This is a chart of the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond. As of this writing, it yields just under 4.7%. But if we look at that chart which covers the past four years of trading, we see it has been in a range from 3.6% to 4.8%. So it is toward the high end of that setup.