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> it for a bond. In monetary terms, it's destroying cash. Too lazy to search for the exact link but I seem to remember reading some editorial in the financial
by paganel 5y ago
> it for a bond. In monetary terms, it's destroying cash.
Too lazy to search for the exact link but I seem to remember reading some editorial in the financial section of The Economist about 3-4 months ago where they were saying that bonds are sort of cash-like, or were sort of cash-like when that article was written and when the papers on which that article was based had been written. If that premise were to hold true (even in part, meaning bonds are sort-of-cash), maybe most of the "rules" economists have written down until now when it comes to the cash vs. bonds relationship would need to be re-written.
For the matter, I don't take much of what it's written down in The Economist at face-value anymore but their financial stuff is still pretty spot on.
- eldavido 5y agoButtonwood, I believe the 27 Nov issue. It was about duration and how cash and short-term bonds are short-duration assets. Great article, btw. (I'm a couple months behind and working my way forward, I just read this a couple days ago)
- paganel 5y agoYeah, it was from November(-ish) and it was Buttonwood, thanks for the find, I'll probably go and re-read it now.