Sam Goldfarb
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106 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2019
last heard Apr 2021
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So it's possible to make money from bonds because bond prices have gone up.
But most people are looking for that steady interest payment.
Well, I mean, the main categories are government bonds and corporate bonds.
So there's government bonds, as in federal government bonds, which are known in the US known as US treasuries, and then municipal bonds.
They're all pretty similar.
But you know, what's different is like who's issuing them.
If it's the US government, the US government probably won't default on that debt.
If it's a company, there's some chance that it could default on that debt as an
you know, run out of money, not be able to pay you.
And then what sort of distinguishes municipal bonds is that their interest payments are not taxable.
So usually when you hear about interest rates, it's basically another way of talking about U.S.
government bonds.
Because U.S.
government bond interest rates are sort of like the baseline for other bonds interest rates.
So, you know, if the 10-year U.S.
Treasury bond
note, is paying an interest rate of 2%, that's a little bit higher than it is now, then when a company issues a bond, they're going to pay a little bit higher than 2%, or a lot higher depending on what company it is.
If you are a holder of bonds, of US government bonds and all the other bonds that are sort of connected to them, then
Then another thing you might care about is that as those interest rates are rising, the bond prices are falling.
So if you have bonds in your portfolio, you might be taking a little bit of a hit this year from that part of the portfolio.
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