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To: Kartographer

There are several theories as to why there should be such demand for notes of such a miserable yield, but none of them leave me convinced other than the Fed buying them with freshly printed money.

Nobody knows how this ends.


2 posted on 10/05/2009 10:56:55 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

If they are inflation indexed, then perhaps it is people who are hedging against a severe boost in inflation.


3 posted on 10/05/2009 11:08:38 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Does anyone know what the index used for the rate change is?

How high can the interest rate go?

How frequently does it change.

These are suicide, just as the variable rate mortgages were for many Americans.


6 posted on 10/05/2009 11:55:45 AM PDT by tired&retired
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