Short-Term United States Treasury Bills Are Widely Used as Proxies

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Essay

Short-term United States Treasury Bills are widely used as proxies for risk-free assets,yet the returns on these T-bills are consistently greater than zero.Is this consistent with the concept of a risk-return tradeoff?

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