Post #16742 by mungofitch on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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Have investors thought through the implications?

Perhaps so.

The yield on 10 year inflation protected US government bonds is about 1.77%.

The average of the yields of the equivalent products from Canada, the UK, Germany, France and Italy is about 1.37%. One could interpret the gap as some unknown mix of the expectation of a weaker currency and the expectation of dodgier inflation data.

And the relative likelihood of default, of course---the US can't be in a position that it must default, but could be in a position that it defaults anyway.

Jim

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