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by BrandonS113 1191 days ago
No. This week, the treasuries and other assets in capital are effectively cash equivalents.
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The worst part of it, is that once interest rates started raising and they started seeing the obvious (but not critical!) impact on their long-maturity bonds, they simply could have switched to shorter-maturity bonds and be totally fine.

But they preferred to gamble.