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US 10- and 30-year bonds are trading at their highest yields (lowest prices) since, uh, August/September 2025. Or in historical context, rates that were more common before 2007 and the ZIRP period.
An equally valid headline is "Investors purchased $8B of US Treasury Bonds". Never really got the point of people announcing US Treasury sales like its a big thing. Someone else not thinking with their emotions can, and will buy them. Its like announcing publicly you are selling your Honda. Its your Honda bro, sell it.
Someone else considered it worthy of sharing here and enough people here found it interesting enough to get it to the front page. I don’t quite understand why, but it seems like it’s striking some sort of chord.
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Nothing is risk-free. But Canada is certainly more politically stable than the US.
What makes you say "certainly," especially in the hypothetical scenario where the US is unstable? Canada has a relatively much shorter history as an independent nation. Canada heavily benefits from its southern neighbor, and has a host of domestic economic issues (low wages, high housing prices; whatever the farmers are on about) that could cause instability as well. I think Canada is reasonably stable, I just quibbl…
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This president has publicly mulled not paying its debts. It's time to stop magical, wishful thinking about how you want the world to be, and deal with the world as it is.
The president can mull whatever he wants; he doesn't have the authority to not pay.
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The fed would almost certainly intervene aggressively resuming large scale QE to buy up treasuries and stabilize yields.
What if the fed ceases to exist soon?
US 10- and 30-year bonds are trading at their highest yields (lowest prices) since, uh, August/September 2025. Or in historical context, rates that were more common before 2007 and the ZIRP period.
Bunch of dumb people running the room and no experts.
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Almost every 1st world country has a more predictable and honest leader right now
You've answered a different question than the one I asked. I think the US will continue to pay its debts, under this president and the one who replaces him in three years.
What are some realistic alternatives to US markets here? Selling is one thing, the question is what to buy instead? I mean, everyone starting to buy european instead would be great for stock prices, but it wouldn't make the underlying assets more valuable, right?
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You've answered a different question than the one I asked. I think the US will continue to pay its debts, under this president and the one who replaces him in three years.
The US will pay its debts in USD and the German government will pay its debts in Euros. If you think the euros to dollar exchange rate will be better in the future, it can easily dwarf the difference in interest rate between the bonds.
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"There have been spontaneous demonstrations amongst the workers voicing their joy and gratitude at our happy new way of life." - Orwell, more or less.
Faith Collapsing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68DJCaqEpDc