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Munis are liquid, I view (a slice of) the market every day. Volume is down, but not significantly: https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-municipal-bonds-s
by adam_arthur 4y ago
Munis are liquid, I view (a slice of) the market every day. Volume is down, but not significantly: https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-municipal-bonds-statistics/ https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-municipal-bonds-...
If you bought them at 2-3% yields then you lost a lot of money, which is probably the case here. If they bought below par they would get their money back at maturity, but that could be 20-30 years from now. Despite being "safe" from a credit perspective, munis are not safe from interest rate risk
- HWR_14 4y agoSorry, you're right that their assets are also down. I didn't mean to deny that. It just seems that it was more a liquidity crunch than a solvency crunch. But maybe they cannot pay all their debtors?