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TLT directional thesis

Long-bond prices keep grinding lower as ballooning US debt and no real tax fix force investors to demand more yield to hold 20-plus year Treasuries.

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“Like on tax policy, if we keep racking up our debt, it may get us out of the corner today, but is it going to really back us into a corner later on? And this is where Americans need to think a little harder about long-term implications of things.”
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