The dollar is losing value
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An interesting effect, however, was that demand is growing for 30-year Treasury bonds. The long bond, as it is known, was once the benchmark for the world market, but the United States stopped issuing them in the late 1990s as the federal budget was at or near balanced for a few years.
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