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People invest in bonds because they are safer than stocks. Government, municipal, and corporate bonds pay interest relative to interest rates set by the central bank and how risky they are perceived. Across the bond categories, there will always be funds (ETFs & Mutual funds) backed by these categories of bonds for investors to purchase and their value proposition is that they behave like the underlying asset. It's much more convenient for people to buy shares of a mutual fund or an ETF than to buy individual bonds at an auction, so it's an attractive product for them to offer and take a small management fee on top of.

> Just choose to invest in literally anything else that doesn't have a known negative ROI.

A fund manager who is responsible for creating a product that matches government bonds can't buy something else because it would no longer be what it is intended to be: a product which behaves according to how the underlying asset behaves.

Investors however, will buy other (riskier) products because it doesn't make sense to buy something with zero or negative interest, which puts more money into less safe hands, hence the talk about bubbles. If the only thing that is offering any return is a ponzi scheme and everyone is invested in it because nothing else is offering return, then it's going to end badly for a lot of people.

It was less about avoiding stalls and more about making sure the performance characteristics of the MAX were similar enough to the previous generations of 737s so that a new type rating wasn't required for the pilots which would have required expensive training.

Wouldn't pass completion ratio be a better metric?

>I feel bad that they rate us because we don't provide them with anything.

You provide them with the "I didn't vomit in your car" service.

Would you consider it an invasion of your privacy if the data was anonymized?

> The way both of you are talking about trading this stock indicates that you both aren't qualified to trade. But then again - there aren't any tests to pass before one can trade - so trade away. But remember - you both look like dancing pigeons to professional traders

Professional traders like this cat?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/01/14/169326326/housecat...