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  • noun Plural form of treasury.

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Examples

  • In QE2 the Feds bought $600 billion of short term treasuries.

    unknown title 2011

  • In QE1 the Federal Reserve bought $1.8 trillion of mortgage backed securities MBS and short term treasuries.

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  • So these countries stored them in treasuries – but later started trying to get better yields by investing in other bonds and currency investment instruments. for instance they would invest in packed home debt offerings and packaged credit card debt offerings, this drove down our interest rates, and gave us such a pool of easy credit that we stopped savings in addition to the natural decline due to advanced credit markets.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Lame Economic Analysis 2009

  • The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Copenhagen as Income Redistribution 2009

  • (B) Interest on treasuries is paid at their retirement, out of general expenditures, to bondholders.

    Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Though they hide behind Greek symbols and fancy, colorful presentations, these are the same folks that persuaded their gullible pension fund clients to allocate a greater portion of their assets to "growth" stocks in late 90s, real estate and alphabet soup investments in mid 2000s, and long-term treasuries today.

    Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Recommended Book List 2010, Part 1 Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010

  • On the protective side (traditional fixed income), we favor short term treasuries (1-3 years) and believe that holding some cash (5-10% of portfolios) remains sensible.

    Gwyneth Paltrow Delivers Investment Advice In GOOP 2010

  • Thursday ' s move is unlikely to affect long-term treasuries much, while boosting the stability of the foreign-exchange market, the ministry said.

    Korea Moves to Impose New Capital Controls Kanga Kong 2010

  • I transferred all my liquid assets from money market to short term treasuries that week.

    Althouse on the road. Ann Althouse 2009

  • One of the issues is that as the debt builds, right now the treasury is trying to lock into a lot more 30 - year debt and 30 year inflation protective long-term treasuries and we're trying to lock into these low rates.

    CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2009 2009

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