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QE and the bond bubble
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QE and the bond bubble

Bond prices have been hugely volatile lately. Is there any relationship between prices and free market forces, or is it all at the behest of central banks?
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Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last month because there was a run on the bank and they didn’t have the assets to cover their customers deposits. They were trading insolvent, in other words, even though they had switched the money deposited into US Treasuries, supposedly the safest investment on earth. But they bought before the price of Treasuries came c…

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