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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2423721)

There is an old financial theory that says when a country's debt EXCEEDS the money spent on it's military, then that country risks having big problems. And right now the US debt EXCEEDS the military spend by a small amount.

US debt depends on collecting TAX revenue and a lot of IRS agents have recently been fired so tax cheats will have, "happy days" and our country will suffer. US tax brackets have favored the Uber Wealthy since around 1980, but most of all for the last 8 years. It is going to be hard for foreign investors to have confidence in the US, when even US investors have lost confidence in the US.

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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2423710)

That's true. My mistake. But, the fact that Japan is selling ANY US Treasury Bonds shows that they are worrying about US unpredictability. For the same reason OTHER counties are also selling US Bonds.

Fake News.

Japan's peak holdings were in 2021.

Japan decreased holdings from 2004 to 2008, then 2014 to 2018, then 2021 to 2022.

Holdings are greatly impacted by Japan's liquidity requirements.