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Re:Yield of 0% a First at 3-Month Treasury-Bill Sale by jonknee on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:34PM (#10341225)
This isn't for your spare change, if you need to stash billions of dollars you're not walking down to the local credit union and signing up for an account.
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Re:Yield of 0% a First at 3-Month Treasury-Bill Sale by 6stringmerc on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:42PM (#10341309)
Yes but Glass-Steagall kind of principles are the ones that are continually being lobbied and chipped away at to increase the capacity for risk in the financial markets.

See: Trying to treat municipal bonds as high quality liquid assets (vs. illiquid for holding purposes).

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