Foreign Investors' Flight from US Debt: A Ticking Time Bomb for Treasury Yields The world of international finance is a complex web of relationships between countries, their central banks, and markets.
One trend in particular threatens to send shockwaves through the global economy: foreign investors, especially those from Japan, are rapidly dumping US debt.
For decades, Japanese investors had little choice but to look abroad for better returns on their investments due to the Bank of Japan's ultra low interest rates and even negative rates.