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Basic Question 3 of 9

From 1900 to 2008, ______

A. T-bills never earned a negative real return in any year.
B. the standard deviation of returns from T-bills was 0.
C. T-bills suffered very little from interest rate risk.

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johntan1979 pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/histret.html

Good reference to see the "risk" of investing in T bills over a long period of time.

Not sure why the T bill return in 1938 is not negative as described in the answer.
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