If China and other countries start to dump U.S bonds, it’s all over for us. The economy will spiral out of control for us and we’ll be in a situation much worse than a just a recession.
Trump is really trying to isolate the U.S with his policies. China, a country who can fare their own without the U.S. may get sick of Trumps bullshit and just get rid of their U.S. bonds just to show that the U.S. ain’t shit.
Then Trump will start begging and pull back him policies, just like he’s doing now with pausing tariffs of computers, etc. But it’ll be too late. No one will view the U.S. the same way, along as Trump is on the helm. Then Trump will have a tantrum like he does and threaten WW3. But it’ll be U.S. versus every country.
Just a speculation. I’m still investing every paycheck into VT, having much faith that we’ll be good 20 years from now when I retire… I used to do VTI, but will now be adding international exposure to be more diversified as there have been decade stretches in the past where international outperformed U.S.
But man.. what a world we live in.