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Re:The horrifying AAA debt-issuance chart by kai-zer on Friday July 15, 2011 @07:26PM (#2769546)
You obviously don't understand the concept of duration. You are comparing 5-10yr debt to 20-30yr debt.

More apt comparison would be intermediate treasuries, much different picture (time frame also questionable for a pure comparison):

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=JNK&t=2y&l=on&z=...

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Re:The horrifying AAA debt-issuance chart by mynameishere on Friday July 15, 2011 @08:07PM (#2769647)
You can see some better numbers here. Of course, when I say "interest rate risk", that function involves duration.

http://etfdb.com/etf/JNK/fundamentals/ http://etfdb.com/etf/IEF/fundamentals/

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