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Is that cheating though?
Buying your own bonds, it will just bring the value of the US dollar down even faster.
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The US has been buying their bonds in one way or another for 100 years. While other countries use a central bank the US does it via the Fed and bond purchases
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Everything they do is cheating.
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They could cheat and manipulate a little less obviously.
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Why go through the effort, when no one seems to care anyway?
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If they got really desperate, they could do a bail-in for themselves and convert people's savings into treasuries.
The one certainty is that they will do something to prop up demand for US debt.