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Re: moore on term structure (Wray's post)

Christopher Niggle wrote:

>Perhaps I'm missing something but the straighforward answer for the long
>maturity premium is that long bonds have greater interest rate risk, and
>most bond investors are risk averse....right?

Except that the average holding period for a US Treasury long bond is about
30 days.

Doug
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