# US Treasury Rates 2020-2021: COVID Near-Zero Era

**Use case:** 

Download average interest rates on US Treasury securities across the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2020 to December 2021), when the Fed cut rates to near zero and Treasury yields hit record lows. Includes bills, notes, bonds, and TIPS from the official FiscalData API. Ideal for studying pandemic monetary policy, zero-rate environments, and building fixed-income models around the 2020-2021 low-rate re

## Input

```json
{
  "fromDate": "2020-01-01",
  "toDate": "2021-12-31",
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "date": {
    "label": "Date"
  },
  "securityType": {
    "label": "Security type"
  },
  "security": {
    "label": "Security"
  },
  "avgRate": {
    "label": "Avg rate"
  }
}
```

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