Our federal government is operating at substantial deficits. While that may add to the risk of a debt crisis, we think the real risk for investors is losing purchasing power. JD recently spoke with David Dierking of IBD about our approach to embracing risk assets, using options as guardrails.

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Beta is a measure of the volatility of a security compared to the market as a whole (usually the S&P 500). Convexity is the curvature in the relationship between bond prices and interest rates, reflecting the rate at which the duration of a bond changes as interest rates change.

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