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Investors are selling off bonds from the U.S. government, as part of a trade known as "Sell America."

The United States government has had to pay more to borrow in the global debt markets. On Wednesday, the Treasury department found that there was tepid demand for an auction for $20 billion worth of bonds, and ended up paying a slightly higher interest rate (or yield) than expected.

This has spooked markets. Yields on 30-year U.S. Treasuries have spiked above 5% this week — an unusual, and unsettling, surge in the price that the U.S. government pays on its long-term debt. An increase in bond yields is particularly damaging to the economy because it jacks up the interest rates on many things that consumers pay, such as on mortgages and other loans.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 76 points 2 days ago (16 children)

I feel like trump could completely destroy the economy and cause the US to split apart and fall into ruin, and people would still think the Republicans are "good for the economy"

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

If this ends up in the Balkanization of the US, it’s gonna be the blue coastal and some Midwest states that are actually economically productive (perhaps as some sort of related-but-technically-separate merged regional unions), and then the south + flyover states descending into 3rd world status.

And like… I’m kinda over giving a shit about confeds. Have the day you voted for.

Edit: geoeconomic idea for Canadia: invest more in US>CA>US transit routes. Make a great-circle-pathed rail line from near Seattle to VT/NH/Maine, with a spur down towards Buffalo too, perhaps.

  • it’s shorter than the Cartesian “line”
  • defense-in-depth is very viable for the mid-country areas, if our government decides to try to grab some Lebensraum
  • can continue to support, trade, and interact with less dumb parts of the country, or whatever independent union states they become in the apres-Balkanization phase
[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what do you wanna name the West Coast bloc when the us collapses? I'm partial to 2Pacistan

[–] SabinStargem 1 points 1 day ago
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