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To: Rarebird who wrote (108469)	4/5/2018 5:11:17 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116825

The threat of foreign dumping of US treasuries never materialized. The yield curve is anchored on the low side by the Fed. Think of it as a boat. When Fed fixes rates of 0 duration, the entire boat (yield curve) is anchored to these rates. If 30 year yields get too high, banks will pile on them, selling the short end. So the long yields can’t rise too far from the short yields, and if they do, it would indicate a “strong economy”. Inflation can kill bonds, but we fix it with liar statistics. Bond prices are “monetary policy”. It is the place where US socialism for the rich resides. You can say there is no bond market in the United States at all. The rates are not free, they are fixed by the government. It definitely applies to the treasury paper.