[Scoundreller]

What happens after a year? If you’ve locked yourself long-term into a below-prevailing-rates investment, isn’t that going to be a big problem when your competitors can offer higher rates?

This kinda happens with fuel cost hedging in aviation: if your airline locks itself into a high rate and prices drop, your competition buying at spot is going to offer better fares and you’ll bleed customers.

And vice-versa when you lock yourself into a price that becomes below-market: you’ll be able to offer better fares and gain customers.

Then comes down to whether you have enough equity to bleed (or hood enough marketing) to weather the storm created.

[paulusthe]

If it's still a problem in a year, the Fed will either extend it or possibly just buy the assets themselves, in a better-collateral version of QE.

There's no harm in holding these assets to maturity. They're fine assets, they're just not paying as much interest as ones you can get today. But buying and holding them will result in a profit, eventually, barring some calamity

[onlyrealcuzzo]

> What happens after a year?

More Fed manipulation, if necessary, obviously.