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Toby Nangle on What We Just Learned From Gilt Market Madness

Odd Lots

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Government Bonds Turn Into a Liability

We've designed an entire financial system around the assumption that that doesn't happen very much. So we have a lot of bank capital rules, liquidity coverage rules and pension fund rules that tend to herd investors into these stable and ostensibly safe government bonds. And so when they turn out to be really volatile, it becomes extremely painful.

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