Normally, investors rush into Treasurys at a whiff of economic chaos but now they are selling them as not even the lure of higher interest payments on the bonds is getting them to buy. The freak development has experts worried that big banks, funds and traders are losing faith in America as a good place to store their money.
“The fear is the U.S. is losing its standing as the safe haven,” said George Cipolloni, a fund manager at Penn Mutual Asset Management. “Our bond market is the biggest and most stable in the world, but when you add instability, bad things can happen.”
That could be bad news for consumers in need of a loan — and for President Donald Trump, who had hoped his tariff pause earlier this week would restore confidence in the markets.
European markets and bonds seem to be catching a lot of the fleeing capital so… big doubt.
We were up 3-0 in the finals and blew the lead. Enjoy generations of poverty if your family can survive the great depression.
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It’s more like we came out of WW2 up by 10 because the other teams got decimated. As the decades have gone on they’ve rebuilt their teams and scored some goals so while we kept scoring, they were catching up. This is actually the natural process where a rebuilt Europe was expected to eventually equal the US.
But Trump just blew up the scoreboard and now everyone is wondering if we’re even still playing the same game.
The US was just the latest to take advantage of a disaster. Not too long before the Nazis tried to kill all the Jews were americans trying to kill all the native americans, as well. I’m not sure america has done any good as a country in a long while.
I didn’t say they did?