Turns out, if you had exited the equity markets when the Shiller PE ratio went down 10% - as is shown above - it actually would have been a good time to enter bonds (with yields above 2% - so recent and yet so far in our memory now). Gains in t-billd bought then would have more than made up for missing out of the upside post late 2018 bear market. Unfortunately, I didn't take my own advice and went into emerging market bonds instead :) Their returns remain strong but the local currency is down 12% vs the USD in a month. Oh noes