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Are Treasury Bonds Overvalued?

Checking the math

Tony Yiu
Alpha Beta Blog
Published in
4 min readApr 21, 2024

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I saw a post on my LinkedIn asking why anyone would want to own bonds at current yields (10 year Treasuries currently yield around 4.6%). Unfortunately, I didn’t save it and now can’t find it for the life of me (LinkedIn’s search functionality is not so great). But the gist of it went:

  1. Bonds don’t offer enough compensation for the risk.

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Tony Yiu
Alpha Beta Blog

Data scientist. Founder Alpha Beta Blog. Doing my best to explain the complex in plain English. Support my writing: https://tonester524.medium.com/membership