Why I don't like buying bonds

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Bonds have a lower expected rate of return than stocks and I don't care too much about risk.
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I don't like them because they aren't worth the paper they are printed on.  34 trillion dollars worth of them floating out there with no way to make good on even a fraction of that. Bonds are by every definition a Ponzi scheme run by the govt.

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Bonds now have interest rate due to high demand of money needed by the treasury so once there finished our government now has to pay much more debt on them. It doesn't make sense because we create bonds in order to create a stimulus of money from other countries to pay off debt alone.