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GM38: Debt, Stagnation and Policy Responses ft. Barry Eichengreen

Top Traders Unplugged

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The Risk of a Run on the US Treasury

In the last five, six, seven years, there has developed a big literature on global safe assets. People want kind of a safe asset that can act as the bedrock of their portfolios. The US remains the dominant provider of those safe assets for the moment. But this will come around again in August or September when the US treasury is not going to be able to pay its bills and it will have to decide who not to pay including possibly bondholders.

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