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🇺🇸 :youtube: **How Bond Vigilantes Made Trump Blink**

Bloomberg Originals

“_US President Donald Trump retreated from his sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs after a bond selloff sent Treasury yields soaring. But who are the much-feared bond vigilantes behind his reversal?_”

#Video length: ten minutes and fifty-four seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=5vB8wB1lDF.

#Bonds #Trump #Tariffs #Markets #Economy #Economics @economics

Well, uh, the demand for US treasuries (long seen as a safe haven asset as safe as cash) has increased by a lot.

Bear in mind that sometimes these extremes mark the times when people are moving to safety much too late in a market drop. We will have to see how this plays out.