In recent years, more than half of reported interdealer broker trading in nominal Treasury debt, on average, took place in on-the-run securities, even though off-the-run issues outnumbered
on-the-run issues more than twenty to one.(25)
The government will buy back the off-the-run issues and offer on- the-run bonds with high liquidity, while increasing the
on-the-run issues through the extension of fungibility from one year to two years.
On-the-run Treasuries generally became relatively more valuable as investors sought not only the safety of Treasury securities but also the liquidity of the
on-the-run issues in the so-called flight to liquidity.(12) After the crisis, spreads remained high on the five-year note and the thirty-year bond, they increased for the ten-year note, but they declined for the two-year note.
