You're preaching to the choir, as they say. This bonds-for-book-value deal is probably the most transparent, inane scheme I've ever seen in the stock market. I am just amazed that so many, Rufus included have bought into it.
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life."
--Theodore Roosevelt