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by rubber_duck 2106 days ago
I'd guess there is there is too much money in it due to the fact that central banks killed interest rates and started buying government bonds as needed - where pension funds would hold those they now need to search positivie returns and there's just not enough good bets there - would explain why the valuations are sky high
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You've confused cause and effect.

Declining expectations for NGDP growth/uncertainty lead to funds searching for yield in the credit markets, leading to declining yields.

Bond yields declined prior to Fed intervention [0]

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10

more due to the fact we massively move retirement payments to market investment instead of redistribution and at the same time boomer begun retiring.

Basically we moved back to a renting society.