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If Japan were to quickly unload a meaningful chunk of their $1.2 trillion in treasuries it would wreck the treasuries market. If I'm not mistaken, $1.2T is rou

If Japan were to quickly unload a meaningful chunk of their $1.2 trillion in treasuries it would wreck the treasuries market. If I'm not mistaken, $1.2T is roughly the year-to-date trading volume of the treasuries market [1]. [1] https://www.sifma.org/research/statistics/us-treasury-securities-statistics https://www.sifma.org/research/statistics/us-treasury-securi...

spott 2mo ago
Sure. It would also wreck Japan.
- _heimdall 2mo ago
  That would depend on why they do it and what theoney is reallocated to. Though yeah I'm sure they'd be wrecked, I don't think they'd dump treasuries I'd the risk of being wrecked was already very high.