Here is what I was responding to: > My gut response is that, yes, if you’re buying risk-free treasuries, why should you get a return above inflation at all? Re

Here is what I was responding to: > My gut response is that, yes, if you’re buying risk-free treasuries, why should you get a return above inflation at all? Rewards and risks should be commensurate. The parent has some sort of ad hoc economic theory ("gut response"), and I am asking them to expand on what the theory entails. "Supposed to happen" means it would be predicted by this theory of theirs.