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To: aquila48

near zero:

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/pages/textview.aspx?data=yield


44 posted on 05/04/2020 4:16:07 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Yes, and look at the fed balance sheet. It skyrocketed the past couple of months.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm

The fed is printing money and buying the government’s debt and thus manipulating the interest rate to where it wants it to be.

And given the alternative (a total crash of the economy and widespread despair) that’s not a bad thing. Hopefully the fed will be smart and wise enough that, as things start returning to normal, they will be able to navigate the tricky reversal successfully.


50 posted on 05/04/2020 11:06:05 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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