The 10-year cumulative return for long-duration bonds inclusive of all their interest payments is like 4%. Just awful.

And of course when you factor in ten years of currency debasement, the return on purchasing power is deeply negative.

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But isn’t losing purchasing power steadily rather than increasing purchasing power in a highly volatile manor way better? That’s at least what I’ve been told

Bitcoin is better 😉

gold from 2011

Look who's desperate for other people's money.