Disliked{quote} What the what?!?!?! There is no looming shadow. There is no "flight" from bonds. You clearly don't understand bond maturity. Maturity = The US treasury is going to cut checks to bond holders for the bonds they have been holding, with interest. It is a pre-scheduled cash payment!!! The maturing bonds are retired! The only question is, what will investors do with their newly freed up cash? They have 2 options: 1) do nothing 2) buy something. How is this driving crypto lower? Or oil, or anything else? It has ZERO impact on anything. WTF are...Ignored
They can buy new treasuries ( I assume this was your do nothing option but I could be wrong), pay down debt, buy non-treasury investment assets, put it in the bank or spend it by buying other items/capital goods. Crypto is one of the 'other investment assets'. Not sure how using maturing treasury proceeds to buy crypto (ie more demand) causes crypto to fall. All of these have different economic consequences.
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