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US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments

152 points · 132 comments · iamnothere

  1. 1over137 · · focus · HN ↗
    US everything has become unappetizing for everyone outside the US.
    1. carefree-bob · · focus · HN ↗
      This is nonsense. The rest of the world holds 9.7 Trillion in Treasuries and this amount increased by $500 billion over the last year.

      So the opposite of this article is true. You can get all the data from the Z.1 release.

      Please don't take these types of flame bait articles seriously or try to spin up an entire world view based on them as you will end up not only directionally wrong, but believe in the exact opposite of reality.

      FYI, that $500B increase in treasury holdings is not the whole picture, there are also the agencies (housing mortage backed securities guaranteed by the govt) and foreign holdings of those also increased by $70 billion over the last year, and are about 1.5 Trillion.

      1. slg · · focus · HN ↗
        Sure, the engines may have died, but not only is the plane still airborne, it's even accelerating!
        1. samudrijan · · focus · HN ↗
          View looks great from up here. Any peanuts?
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