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SamuelTheThird

(1,495 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 03:53 PM 13 hrs ago

A 'new' financial crisis is brewing

https://ifamagazine.com/japans-yen-crisis-could-trigger-us-treasury-selloff/

Nigel Green says that if Japanese authorities are forced into sustained intervention to defend the yen, they may have little choice but to liquidate substantial amounts of foreign reserves, including US government bonds, potentially creating fresh pressure in the world’s most important debt market.

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“Japan remains one of the largest foreign holders of US government debt. If intervention efforts become larger, longer, and more frequent, the implications go well beyond the foreign exchange market.

“To support the yen, Japanese authorities must sell foreign currency reserves, which are heavily invested in dollar-denominated assets, including US government bonds.”

“The question investors should be asking instead is: if Japan is, indeed, forced to intervene repeatedly, what assets will it have to sell to defend its currency? “If the answer increasingly includes US Treasuries, then what appears to be a Japanese currency crisis today would rapidly become a global bond market crisis tomorrow.”

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A 'new' financial crisis is brewing (Original Post) SamuelTheThird 13 hrs ago OP
"trust the plan" q anon rampartd 13 hrs ago #1
White collar crime is not a crime under Trump Johonny 12 hrs ago #2

rampartd

(5,550 posts)
1. "trust the plan" q anon
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 04:04 PM
13 hrs ago

viet nam lessons learned "in order to save the village dear leader must first destroy it."

the plan might be to shift "elite" assets to crypto and kill the legal tender through hyperinflation

Johonny

(26,867 posts)
2. White collar crime is not a crime under Trump
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 04:51 PM
12 hrs ago

Assume the corruption will increase until it breaks... no one is minding the store right now.

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