i'm joined by senior markets editor, russell pearlman, good morning to you.lways been told that the 10 year treasury bond is the safest investment, is that true? >> the government will always pay its debts. right now it's not the most safest of havens. it's only pay 1.75% interest a year for those 10 years. if you put $1000 in you'll get that are 17.50 a year in interest. that is not a lot of money and inflation is 2%, higher than what the treasury bond will pay you. even though you don't lose money you're losing buying power because inflation is eating away all of the sw you're earning and then some. >> what is the answer? is the stock market safer then? >> as risky as everyone thinks the stock market is and everyone is anchored on the fact that four years ago we had a financial crisis, the market lost money, the stock market is reasonably cheap and certainly very cheap compared to what you would get on treasury bonds. and actually more than half of the s&p 500 stocks are paying dividends that have rates higher than that 10 year treasury. so yes, you're taki