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Comment by lxgr

8 months ago

Your model is missing the Fed, which can buy an almost infinite number of bonds to bring the effective interest rate down to whatever it wants.

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misja111  8 months ago

You mean, by printing money. Well, if they would do that, the USD would sink even more and thus also the US bonds.

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