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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 10, 2025 @01:36AM (#43640963)
> we are choking off the supply of dollars used to buy debt (rather abruptly), so that US debt is chasing fewer dollars and has to give a bigger yield as a result

Well, also, the holders of our debt now need liquidity. So they sell this famously-liquid asset we've been selling them for decades.

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