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by prottog 1190 days ago
> Honestly, it looks like in a year or two, the Government will make money off of this because as soon as interest rates come down the securities will go back to book value.

Government will get back the number of dollars equal to the par value of those bonds. Inflation between now and then, however, will mean that in real terms there will have been losses.