Ben Casselman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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And the yield on that tenure treasury has been going up.
It's been going up gradually for the past several years, and it's gone up pretty sharply over the past few months.
And and on Monday, actually, it briefly touched five percent, which is the highest in three years.
This is why it's in the headlines.
This is why we're talking about it now on the daily.
Is that this increase in yields has both sort of direct immediate consequences and then it raises concerns about all sorts of long-term issues that we could face down the road.
If only.
I would love to give you the simple one sentence schoolhouse rock version.
This this is gonna take more than a schoolhouse rock.
There are a lot of reasons.
Okay.
Is the short dodge answer.
The simplest to understand, I think, is inflation.
So if I'm buying a ten year government bond, if I'm lending the government a thousand dollars and they're promising to give me a thousand dollars back in ten years, we know that that thousand dollars is gonna be worth less in ten years than it is today.
Right.
That's just what inflation means.
Right.
So at the barest minimum.
I want to make sure that the money that I get back from the government, all that interest and the thousand dollars at the end, makes me whole with inflation.
So if I expect 2% inflation a year, I better at least be getting 2% interest.
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