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They have these pre-made charts you can click on. They have these templates made. And one of them

is the template for the Treasury yield curve. You can see rates have all come up across the board,

mostly in the low end. Ten year treasuries now at like 2.8%. Here's the thing. The inflation rate

went above the 30 year treasury in April of last year. And for months, you and I were saying,

why is it taking so long for interest rates to rise? Why aren't they going anywhere? We had all

these theories and ideas. The Fed was buying and bond people were buying. And now it's the

opposite way. Now they're catching up really quick. Why did it take so long for rates to rise?

And now why are they doing it so quickly when it seemed like for months and months it was obvious

inflation was here and it was high. Is the simplest answer the right answer that the Fed is

buying less bonds than they were two months ago, three months ago? Do you really think that's what it

is? What do you think? I don't know. That seems like the anti-fed. I hate the markets kind of thing.

It just surprised me that the bond market is so huge with trillions of... But the Fed was actively

buying tons of bonds and other buying less. What if it's that simple? Or you think it's not enough?

I think that's not enough. Maybe someone can screw me if they have like data on that, but I'm just

saying. Well, how about this? It seems like the bond market is supposed to be so smart. And why did

it take so long for rates to catch up? When the Fed said they were going to start purchasing ETFs

and bonds, that buoyed the market before they even really did anything. So if that was able to

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