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[unable to retrieve full-text content]When the Treasury Department released its Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for December, what was a somewhat obscure report suddenly found mainstream attention. Private foreign investors had sold tens of billions in US securities primarily US Treasury bonds and notes which the media then made into some kind of warning to then-incoming President Trump. It was supposed to be a big deal, the kind of rebuke reserved for disreputable leaders of banana republics. The latest update instead shows that the warning was never meant for Mr. Trump at all, but rather for the media about jumping to conclusions without any depth of detail or understanding. Private offshore entities who had “sold” a net billion in UST’s in December bought back nearly billion in January.
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[unable to retrieve full-text content][unable to retrieve full-text content]When the Treasury Department released its Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for December, what was a somewhat obscure report suddenly found mainstream attention. Private foreign investors had sold tens of billions in US securities primarily US Treasury bonds and notes which the media then made into some kind of warning to then-incoming President Trump. It was supposed to be a big deal, the kind of rebuke reserved for disreputable leaders of banana republics. The latest update instead shows that the warning was never meant for Mr. Trump at all, but rather for the media about jumping to conclusions without any depth of detail or understanding. Private offshore entities who had “sold” a net billion in UST’s in December bought back nearly billion in January.
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When the Treasury Department released its Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for December, what was a somewhat obscure report suddenly found mainstream attention. Private foreign investors had sold tens of billions in US securities primarily US Treasury bonds and notes which the media then made into some kind of warning to then-incoming President Trump. It was supposed to be a big deal, the kind of rebuke reserved for disreputable leaders of banana republics.
The latest update instead shows that the warning was never meant for Mr. Trump at all, but rather for the media about jumping to conclusions without any depth of detail or understanding. Private offshore entities who had “sold” a net $40 billion in UST’s in December bought back nearly $38 billion in January. This is not an