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The interest rates on credit are very favorable when considering inflation. Entities with significant medium to long term debt can be attractive right now.

On a personal note, if you have a mortgage at 3% and inflation is 6%, then you are generating value and free to use the money you do have for stuff like investment properties or securities.

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It depends on what terms you are getting but it is important to be clear that this is a bet on the Fed not raising rates, and I would argue that you should own linkers if you want to do this bet instead.

Everything makes perfect sense when the risk-free rate is -5%. If the Fed does hike late and the risk-free rate has to move to 5% then your debt will start looking like a noose.

Yeah, things can change. As a startup, I would hope the time horizon would be short enough that acquisition or profitability happens first.

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