Wednesday, June 14, 2017

The Global Economy Is Rebounding, But There’s One Big Problem

...China and other developing nations are accumulating wealth, but failing to create sophisticated local markets that feature their own risk-free instruments. That’s left a dangerous reliance on U.S. Treasuries, according to Jen’s argument, perpetuating a bond bubble and pushing investors into riskier assets.

...Absent of a massively large and liquid sovereign bond market which can act as free-risk collateral and benchmark for other instruments, no currency can ever become an international currency,”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/synchronous-global-recovery-masks-a-deepening-asset-imbalance

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