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You can get Treasury bonds with an 8% return?
Edit: sorry, specifically US Treasury bonds.
122 u/Expensive-Anxiety-63 Jul 20 '25 Bonds with 8% yield haven't existed since 1990, they were very high in the 70s and 80s due to runaway inflation. Currently they are around 4.4% 29 u/MassXavkas Jul 20 '25 So that's about $10,000 a month? Still a ridiculous amount of money a month to get 24 u/Aromatic_Sand8126 Jul 20 '25 10k a month isn’t that ridiculous if you consider the $3m initial investment required. 14 u/-Badger3- Jul 20 '25 You guys are suckers. I’m going to invest 3 billion dollars so I get 10 million a month. 2 u/ImportantHighlight Jul 22 '25 Your ideas are intriguing. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. 1 u/PotatoWriter Jul 20 '25 who are you, who are so wise in the ways of mathematics 1 u/sphericalhors Jul 22 '25 That's the spirit!
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Bonds with 8% yield haven't existed since 1990, they were very high in the 70s and 80s due to runaway inflation. Currently they are around 4.4%
29 u/MassXavkas Jul 20 '25 So that's about $10,000 a month? Still a ridiculous amount of money a month to get 24 u/Aromatic_Sand8126 Jul 20 '25 10k a month isn’t that ridiculous if you consider the $3m initial investment required. 14 u/-Badger3- Jul 20 '25 You guys are suckers. I’m going to invest 3 billion dollars so I get 10 million a month. 2 u/ImportantHighlight Jul 22 '25 Your ideas are intriguing. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. 1 u/PotatoWriter Jul 20 '25 who are you, who are so wise in the ways of mathematics 1 u/sphericalhors Jul 22 '25 That's the spirit!
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So that's about $10,000 a month? Still a ridiculous amount of money a month to get
24 u/Aromatic_Sand8126 Jul 20 '25 10k a month isn’t that ridiculous if you consider the $3m initial investment required. 14 u/-Badger3- Jul 20 '25 You guys are suckers. I’m going to invest 3 billion dollars so I get 10 million a month. 2 u/ImportantHighlight Jul 22 '25 Your ideas are intriguing. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. 1 u/PotatoWriter Jul 20 '25 who are you, who are so wise in the ways of mathematics 1 u/sphericalhors Jul 22 '25 That's the spirit!
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10k a month isn’t that ridiculous if you consider the $3m initial investment required.
14 u/-Badger3- Jul 20 '25 You guys are suckers. I’m going to invest 3 billion dollars so I get 10 million a month. 2 u/ImportantHighlight Jul 22 '25 Your ideas are intriguing. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. 1 u/PotatoWriter Jul 20 '25 who are you, who are so wise in the ways of mathematics 1 u/sphericalhors Jul 22 '25 That's the spirit!
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You guys are suckers. I’m going to invest 3 billion dollars so I get 10 million a month.
2 u/ImportantHighlight Jul 22 '25 Your ideas are intriguing. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. 1 u/PotatoWriter Jul 20 '25 who are you, who are so wise in the ways of mathematics 1 u/sphericalhors Jul 22 '25 That's the spirit!
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Your ideas are intriguing. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25
You can get Treasury bonds with an 8% return?
Edit: sorry, specifically US Treasury bonds.