Don Luskin of TrendMacrolytics writes in a note to clients today: "Global real rates and yields are now the lowest in the history of the data." His data goes back decades and he notes that 10-year government bonds in the U.S., Europe and much of the rest of the world are yielding less than inflation. Lately in the United States, inflation has been outrunning the yield on the 10-year Treasury by more than five full percentage points. This brutal negative real return is worse than anything investors have received since an inflation event that really did prove to be transitory.