Timeline for Why do people buy negative interest rate bonds?
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| May 23, 2020 at 16:43 | vote | accept | curiousTrader | ||
| May 23, 2020 at 14:30 | answer | added | ccy | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 22, 2020 at 16:58 | answer | added | user3528438 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 22, 2020 at 16:38 | comment | added | user3528438 | If you have a tremendous amount of money then the bank failing is a legit risk (insurance only covers $250K in US, 85K in UK so really not hard to hit this limit), so is your private cash deposit being stolen or damaged. Among those three options (physical cash, bank account and treasury), government bond is costly but safest. Physical cash storage gets expensive when the volume and threat level goes up, too. | |
| May 22, 2020 at 12:50 | comment | added | Henry | Related: economics.stackexchange.com/questions/10637/… | |
| May 22, 2020 at 6:17 | answer | added | user4020 | timeline score: 34 | |
| May 22, 2020 at 4:19 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 21, 2020 at 20:37 | answer | added | 1muflon1♦ | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 21, 2020 at 20:19 | history | asked | curiousTrader | CC BY-SA 4.0 |