America's primary foreign creditors are starting to pull away

America's primary foreign creditors are starting to pull away

This Salon Video was produced by Alexandra Clinton President Donald Trump's ability to cheaply finance ambitious policy goals like tax cuts and infrastructure development may be undermined by the sudden drop in foreign creditors purchasing American Treasuries.

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“It may be more difficult than usual for Japanese to invest in Treasuries and the dollar this year because of political uncertainty,” Kenta Inoue, chief strategist for overseas bond investments at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo, told Bloomberg. “Treasury yields may rise rapidly again in the near future, which will continue to discourage them from buying aggressively.”