Even the stocks bears are nowhere near bearish enough

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There are a few chosen bears around the place, via Bloomie:

A decision to unload a big slug of tech megacaps in January sat poorly for a while with Andrew Slimmon, who helps run stock funds at Morgan Stanley. After the carnage of the last seven days, he wishes he’d sold more.

“We didn’t sell enough. You never do,” says Slimmon, a managing director and senior portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. “Now we’re going to buy more. I’m not decidedly in the camp of, ‘Oh gosh, rates are going to zero, this is the beginning of the end.’ ”

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.