Recently, the US treasury just announced 40 billion of sales in Zero-Coupon Bonds. What are they?

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How do they work?

Zero-Coupon bonds pay no interest but trade at a deep discount and pay a profit when the bond matures. The difference between the purchase price and the value of the bond is the investor's return. For example, if a zero-interest bond has a face value of 1000 in 5 years, they may sell for 800 right now. In five years, you would be paid 1000. However, you would not get any interest for this bond.

If a market has high-interest rates, these bonds are worth little because they do not give you any interest. If the market has low interest rates, the bonds are worth a lot because you get returns much higher than the market interest rate. The bonds are also valuable if the market is expected to crash, as you would still get guaranteed returns on the bonds.

So why would you buy a Zero-coupon bond? There are several reasons

1. When interest rates go down
2. When STOCK PRICES FALL

But wait, the skeptic in you says, what if it's just the first one? Well, the federal government usually will drive interest rates down if they think the economy is suffering in order to promote lending and spending. The economy tends to suffer during financial crises, so in reality, both of these reasons are met IF THERE IS A FINANCIAL CRISIS SOON. They're perfect for investors to HEDGE AGAINST THE STOCK MARKET. I took a deeper look into this and found some interesting information.

Look at the first one on the list, the 4-week bond

Another thing that makes this alarming is that they expire in 28 days. That's right. This isn't the typical 2 or 5-year bonds you're used to. These are 4 week bonds with 0 interest. It might be nothing, but it's just kind of odd how they're selling an asset that you only want to buy if people think the stock market will crash in the next four weeks.

How rare is this event?

"I grabbed the raw auction data from their query tool: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/annceresult_query.htm

It would only let me go back as far back as 7/31/2001 for 4-weeks, but there are 1032 tota

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Also, someone mentioned you should start from higher up and go down so you don't miss a chance at a higher discount. Im sorry whoever you are I have lost you in the comments.

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If the 400% short interest report is legit from Zerohedge (remember, OTC Markets web site only provides you so much data. Zerohedge bought/had access to 'enhanced' data) then $KYNC has 20 billion shares shorted?

The guy who owns this position is shitting his corduroys. Its a heavy shit - the post Whopper after 12 Wine Cooler type.

Seriously, you don't have to to retain the credentials of a member of the Manhattan Project to know $KYNC is nothing. Its where bull meets shit. But on a technical basis, could this short position explain the insane volume on 4.5.21 (500 million shares) and a 42% rise?

I own this garbage for that reason alone.

I want to see this short squeeze. At less than a penny a share, I am willing to sell my Wally Joyner Donruss cards and give it a shot.

Thoughts?

Zerohedge Short Interest Data as reported in January 2021 - Who the Fuck shorts 20 billion shares? I guy who has now learned the lesson of not keeping additional trousers in the trunk of your 1989 Dodge Shadow for times when you start shitting your pants.

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