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SVB collapse shows there’s no safety in government bonds

Debunking Economics - the podcast

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Is There a Risk in Hedging?

Silicon Valley lost 1.8 billion in US treasury bonds because they weren't holding up this, this value. So it was much more exposed. The fundamental cause comes back to the Fed having done a bad policy kind of quantitative easing with objectives that could not reach and therefore inflating asset markets.

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