But you don't have to sell the bond. It is entirely sufficient if you visit your friendly bank and use it as security for a loan.

Liquidity is essentially the capability to transact, and it is true that a single class of one undated credit instrument will be more liquid than a myriad fragmented classes of dated debt instruments with different dates and rates.

But liquidity is not per se a reason to transact.

The reason why people may get shot of Greenbacks in favour of bonds or other asset classes - or just 'stuff', thereby causing inflation - is that Greenbacks carry:

(a) no right to income; and

(b) no right to anything with a use value.

What has happened at the moment is essentially that T-Bills at the Zero Bound are functionally equivalent to greenbacks.

So the huge amounts of QE dollars (Fed greenback clones) are going to investors who are using them to purchase of any financial asset other than T-Bills and thereby create parallel bubbles all over the place (eg WTI and S&P correlation).

Where they are not going is to people who will use them to buy stuff - investors have all the stuff they need, thank you.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson