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A defensive rotation into Treasury bonds, gold, high-grade corporate bonds and solid dividend-paying stocks would be likely.

If that doesn’t reek of a corporate attempt to get people hooked, I don’t know what does.

Some investors fear that markets are particularly vulnerable to disruption now, when the extended rally has stretched corporate valuations, making the biggest stocks historically expensive.

While Patrick James set the corporate strategy, his brother and another executive handled much of the wrangling with financiers and signed most of the paperwork.

Stocks and corporate bonds are born when companies wish to raise funds, and are willing to give up either part ownership or interest to do so.