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Why not just keep cash instead of investing in negative rate yielding bonds?
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:22 pm
by economicsjunkie
This post has some nice illustrations to answer this question:
http://mishtalk.com/2016/03/15/reader-a ... e-returns/
Re: Why not just keep cash instead of investing in negative rate yielding bonds?
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 3:08 pm
by Kriegsspiel
Individual Europeans could still buy some gold, if they were reaching for yield. It'd be like 1,000 times less voluminous.
Re: Why not just keep cash instead of investing in negative rate yielding bonds?
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 4:48 pm
by economicsjunkie
Kriegsspiel wrote:
Individual Europeans could still buy some gold, if they were reaching for yield. It'd be like 1,000 times less voluminous.
Which is probably happening as well.
Re: Why not just keep cash instead of investing in negative rate yielding bonds?
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 6:29 pm
by Tortoise
This is why I love being a PP investor. Nonsense like negative interest rates doesn't bother me much, because my portfolio is encased in solid gold. Shit happens, and I'm covered.
Re: Why not just keep cash instead of investing in negative rate yielding bonds?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:21 am
by Kbg
TLT doing it's job again for the conditions we are in vice the one's people worry about being in...YTD +8.8%.
Re: Why not just keep cash instead of investing in negative rate yielding bonds?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:55 am
by dualstow
Tortoise wrote:
Shit happens, and I'm covered.
What a funny image that conjures up!
