On the other hand, China sold off most of theirs and nobody even noticed. I thin...

youngtaff · 2026-01-19T09:58:51 1768816731

China sold off their holdings pretty slowly as they didn’t want to drive the price down

someNameIG · 2026-01-18T23:10:21 1768777821

Deutsche Bank made a statement recently that Europe holds about double what the rest of the world does combined in US bonds and equity.

youngtaff · 2026-01-19T09:57:08 1768816628

Europe holds $8 trillion out of 38 trillion… they can move the market

TurdF3rguson · 2026-01-18T23:29:45 1768778985

Sure but we were talking about just debt. Also the "rest of the world" is basically just China. I don't think it's a shocker that China isn't interested in betting on US companies.

rsynnott · 2026-01-19T12:55:41 1768827341

Nah, China only holds about 600bn these days. Besides European sovereign holdings, most of the rest would be non-sovereign.

TurdF3rguson · 2026-01-19T19:15:54 1768850154

Yup, that's my point. They sold off lots of debt and nobody noticed so EU doing the same won't matter.

drysine · 2026-01-23T20:14:14 1769199254

>and nobody noticed

You didn't notice. Look at the interest rate chart[1]

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/interest-expense-avg-interes...