Monday, October 31, 2011

Treasury considering floating rates notes.

Very interesting.  Yet another thing to cover in the bond lecture!  Of course higher interest rates mean that the Government's liability would increase (As Campbell Harvey of Duke notes in the article), but this is already the case with TIPS, so I would wonder to what degree investors would actually just substitute these new bonds for TIPS.

(reposted from financeprofessor)

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