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and next period everybody forecast that the values were going to go to PV_1,
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and so it can't be that you're, you know--
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this was an investment you made.
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You put your money in. You bought this bond.
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You could sell the bond now at time 1 after having obtained the cash flows.
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It better be that your rate of return is the market interest rate of return
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otherwise there'd be some arbitrage,
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and in fact it is.
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So if you can compute all the present values properly,
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the only fair thing to do--
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this is not a great investment.
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Even if C (1) is a huge amount of money