{"id":420255,"date":"2026-01-21T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420255\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:16:12","slug":"us-foreign-debt-an-enormous-vulnerability-says-bridgewaters-dalio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420255\/","title":{"rendered":"US foreign debt an \u2018enormous vulnerability,\u2019 says Bridgewater\u2019s Dalio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Countries in Trump\u2019s crosshairs have found few ways to fight back against a president who appears dug in on owning Greenland, patrolling the Western Hemisphere, and bullying Europe. One thing they do have, Bridgewater\u2019s Ray Dalio told Semafor\u2019s Liz Hoffman: A lot of America\u2019s bonds.<\/p>\n

The $9 trillion of US debt owned by foreign countries is an \u201cenormous vulnerability,\u201d Dalio said at Semafor Haus in Davos. His warning came as global investors finally appeared spooked by Trump\u2019s actions, and stocks and bonds tumbled. An executive at Denmark\u2019s largest pension plan said it was selling off its $100 million<\/a> in US Treasury bonds \u2014 a move he insisted wasn\u2019t political \u2014 after Trump doubled down on his Greenland demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could easily imagine it could simply become unpopular to buy or hold US debt,\u201d Dalio said. (The hedge-fund founder promptly urged the audience to buy gold.) <\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t the first time the US\u2019 reliance on global bondholders has become a weakness: In 2007, Russia suggested to Chinese officials that they simultaneously dump their holdings of Fannie Mae bonds, then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wrote in his memoir.<\/p>\n

A PIMCO executive told<\/a> the Financial Times that the bond giant was pivoting away from US assets because of Trump\u2019s \u201cunpredictable\u201d policies, and General Atlantic\u2019s co-president told Bloomberg TV that \u201cfor the first time in our 45-year history, we have more assets outside the US than inside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Countries in Trump\u2019s crosshairs have found few ways to fight back against a president who appears dug in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-420255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}