What do you get if you combine the world’s most important financial market, hedge funds, enormous leverage, and doom loop dynamics? Welcome to the Treasury ‘basis trade'.

We discuss the risks that lurk behind the Treasury market and why regulators are sounding the alarm.

And in today’s Dumb Question of the Week: What is the difference between duration and maturity?

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