@andyjennings That sounds like a question for Marketplace.org. They love talking about the US bond market.
I believe the typical buyer of 30 yr Treasuries are pension funds and similar institutions. They have a long term need for which there is no good substitute. As I recall, they were a bit perturbed when President Clinton reduced the debt so much there weren't new issues of 30 year notes for a while.

She Stood Too Close to Me

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I Was Doing Tai Chi.
Everybody Else Was Kung Fighting.

Another Horse Stole My Identity

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'Satan has eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

as a fruit-offering

to

the LORD'

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A Horse with No Blame

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She Blinded Me! With Science!

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'The chair is not my son!
It’s probably the Vice President’s
By that couch'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8nwVo_i-nI

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@noondlyt

Jesus drop kicked me toward the goal posts of life but he missed.

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Jesus Took the Wheel

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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 135

Foraging #bumblebees carry, on average, roughly one quarter of their body weight in pollen and nectar.
Pollen is transported in the pollen sacs/baskets on their hind legs and nectar is stored in the ‘honeystomach’.
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via @fridaghitis

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all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars

He hadn't gone more than half-way when a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over him.

@davemq @darth_hideout Thanks. I would like to play a few more times before I try to run a game.

@darth_hideout PASS. I only just discovered this game a couple days ago

@darth_hideout @allstartrek Thanks. I hadn't used a CW before and it came out wrong, so I deleted it.

This is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.

In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.

It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

I thought this was a familiar-to-me tent moth caterpillar (genus Malacosoma) at first glance, but then learned it was something new-to-me: Gnophaela vermiculata, the green lattice moth

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