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Rob Armstrong

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1161 total appearances

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What’s bothering bonds?

I thought we had a rule about this.

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What’s bothering bonds?

That's the thing about the bond market.

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What’s bothering bonds?

It's made of money.

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What’s bothering bonds?

You know, this is this is a very important fact about it.

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What’s bothering bonds?

And that demands respect.

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What’s bothering bonds?

I noticed the Australian 10-year is also paying 5%.

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What’s bothering bonds?

So you can flip over to Australia and get the same yield.

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What’s bothering bonds?

Shall we go to the world now?

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What’s bothering bonds?

Shall we broaden the lens to the world?

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What’s bothering bonds?

I mean, it's printing money, right?

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What’s bothering bonds?

Issuing bonds and having the central bank buy them is printing money.

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What’s bothering bonds?

Oh, I'm sorry.

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What’s bothering bonds?

I keep interrupting.

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What’s bothering bonds?

Even worse than usual.

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What’s bothering bonds?

Go ahead, Katie, please.

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What’s bothering bonds?

I think it's because of the size, liquidity, and structure of the market rather than the quality of the asset.

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What’s bothering bonds?

So it's a universally accepted, highly liquid, large, easy to access market in a currency that everybody understands and wants.

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What’s bothering bonds?

So in global bond markets, it pays to be the biggest and the U.S.

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What’s bothering bonds?

is the biggest.

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What’s bothering bonds?

30-year debt.