10-Year Treasury Note

  

Government paper, or bonds, which pay interest twice a year like normal bonds, and then boringly come due and pay off the principal that the U.S. government borrowed. Remember that, when the government issues tons of paper, i.e. sells lots of bonds, it raises cash for itself, sucking cash out of the system, sucking liquidity from the system... and vice-versa.

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