I was just reading this morning that the US had to spend fifty billion to buy 20 year treasury bonds because not enough people bought them during an event held last week, an economist called it buying bonds with fake money because the federal government doesn't have fifty billion to buy bonds. I am assuming they meant they had to print the money to do it. That kind of desperation to hold up the bond market makes looking at crypto's to do it lucrative, at least until word gets out and others move to sell their bonds.