Interest Rate on the National Debt

[Brad DeLong]

>A request for information, or a link to the information.
>
>I recall hearing a while back that the Clinton administration
>was calling old 30-year, 15% yield bonds that the Reagan
>administration had issed back in the 1980's.  They were being
>replaced with fresh debt, which consisted of 6% yield bonds.
>
>Does anybody know where I can find the rate structure of
>the national debt?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Barry

I don't think we can call them. I think we have to buy them back at a 
pretty ferocious premium over face value, which I think we have been 
doing...

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