Posted on 04/07/2025 4:56:50 PM PDT by hardspunned
China responds by selling another $50BN in TSY. Oh btw, the yield on 10Ys is now almost unchanged from Liberation Day!
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The thing about that strategy is there are those on the other side with bigger balance sheets who will gladly buy all China has to sell. The bond market is too big to push around for long. Xi is an idiot.
China has so much debt they’ll have to concede. In exchange Trump will be cordial. Also Trump will make BTC very valuable so that China can pay off their debts. This will avert WW3.
Sort of like how Reagan had the Soviets by the b@lls with Star Wars and oil prices.
BTC. Bitcoin? Eventually, I’m going to get more curious and maybe a little more weak. I’ll want to find some small way to invest in Bitcoin without taking to great of a risk, if that’s even possible. Sector Funds?/ Mutual Funds?
Perhaps there is no other way to purchase and hold (vs quickly trade) Bitcoin, than to walk a tightrope. Some ropes are higher off the hard stone floor than other ropes.
Russian crude touched $50 a barrel today. That’ll get Putin’s attention.
To hell with the CCP.
Give Chernobyl some credit too.
Oh, Fidelity offers them?
I already have some money with Fidelity.
I’ll have to look into this. Thx!
You can also use an app like Coinbase to make small purchases. The fees are high though.
They killed a Million Americans.
You can buy some MSTR check it out
MSTR; MicroStrategy Inc.
At typical price of about $268.14 a share, if I bought, I would start off with just one or two shares. Wait and study the activity for a while.
All the drama.
Trump should say, “Let’s come back in six months” and leave it at that. China’s managed economy is a mess already. They have a lot more to lose than the US.
Everyone getting worked up abut this is thinking in terms of days. We should start looking at years, not days.
If China dumps a bunch of Treasury’s, then the price will go down, and new Treasury’s will be able to be sold at lower rates, which is what Pres. Trump wants anyway. Who will want to buy T-bills at the low rates of the bonds China owns, when they can get 4% on new ones? There’s only been two times in the last 25 years when the interest rate has been as high as now, and the last time was over 10 years ago. Unless the Chicoms bought a bunch of 30-year bonds back in 2008, they don’t really have anything worth selling.
You have no idea how it works. The lower the bond’s price the higher the fixed yield relative to a price.
The point is that with the low interest rates over the last 25 years, the bonds that the Chicoms own would have to be sold for less than they spent on them. I don’t think they would do that since their economy isn’t all that great right now, so the biggest the discount could be is for the very low interest amounts. That would be competing with new US bonds at much higher rates.
Balance of trade based tariffs are an impossible situation - someone has to get richer and someone has to get poorer.
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