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Comment by eigenspace

Japan holds a huge amount of US treasuries, and I guess was considering a mass sell off to raise cash to defend the Yen.

US treasury bond yields are already dangerously high for the US and Japan selling treasuries would push yields up even higher, and could trigger more panic selling from others.

I guess this is Bessent's scheme to try and kick that can down the road.

parent eigenspace 3 months ago

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