The Collapse of the 60/40 Fantasy The old model is dead. Goldman Sachs, in a rare moment of candor, has officially thrown the 60/40 strategy onto the funeral pyre. Their analysts—Daan Struyven, Lina Thomas, and Samantha Dart—didn’t shout it from the rooftops. Instead, they muttered it in the fine print of their latest institutional guidance: bonds are no longer a safe haven. In fact, they're a liability. Why the sudden shift? Because the central banks that create money out of thin air are no longer betting on their own IOUs. They’re backing away from bonds and stockpiling gold with the urgency of doomsday preppers. Since the spark of the Ukraine conflict, this flight to hard assets has accelerated into a…

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