To get more than you paid for a bond when the interest rate is...

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    To get more than you paid for a bond when the interest rate is negative you have to sell it on the market.
    The markets now are completely controlled and unreliable. At any moment the CB's and their allied organisations may decide the bond market should collapse or anything between collapse and euphoria and they are not going to tell you when or what is going to happen.
    If a country falls foul of the US/UK financial system it may well have its bond market, currency and equities markets ravaged and collapsed in short order. Not as if there is not proof of this around right now as the UK/US have sanctions on half the world and at one stage threatened Australia with sanctions and we have been to every war with them.
    Buying bonds and expecting to make money is imo a very risky thing to do especially corporate bonds right now.
 
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