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309: Bonds: The Perfect Inflation Hedge (with One BIG Caveat)

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Bond Interest Yields - Is That a Risk?

Bond interest rates piqued in the late seventies and early eighties. They've really been on a long downward trajectory until last year when they were at their lowest om ever, right approaching that. My worry, my fear is that those yields are likely to increase over the next 30, forty, 50 years, on average, relative to where they are to day. And because of that, om any bond yields thatii, if i were to lend money to day, i could be lending more interest later, and the equity value of those yields will actaly decline. That currently, with yields on average lower than inflation a this is not a place for me to park my money

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