Since 2022, the U.S. Treasury has relied heavily on issuing short duration (52 weeks or less) bills to fund the deficit. T-Bills have climbed from 14.67% of the outstanding debt in 2022 to 21.57% in 2025. Because of the increased supply of T-Bills, the federal reserve announced that they had to start purchasing T-bills in December.

Treasury bonds are low-risk loans to the U.S. government, typically paying out interest on a regular schedule. Like all bonds, they're still subject to interest rate risk: If rates rise, bond values fall. Treasury bonds are exempt from state and local ...

The longest-term Treasurys are down about two-thirds from their peak. Is that cheap enough? The bears are in control of the bond market. During the great bond bubble of the past decade, many Wall Street salesmen liked to reassure their clients that they ...

The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) doesn’t have the prettiest chart when you look back at the past few years. The ETF has declined significantly due to the Federal Reserve’s record interest rate hikes,

I read the Hub's opinion about returning the state's revenue surplus to taxpayers and have to disagree with you. Once taxes have been collected, people don't miss the money, and, if it is returned, the probability is that it will not be saved, but used to ...

The U.S. Treasury Department, which oversees federal borrowing and manages the nation’s debt, recently posted on X highlighting that U.S. Treasurys are on pace for their strongest year since 2020. The post compared annual returns from 2020 through 2025 ...