Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules!
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
- US economy collapses because of spending all its money, and money it didn’t have, on AI,
- Canada gives up trade talks and imposes 50% tariffs on the USA, matching America’s trump tarrifs on canada
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If Canada sells the US bonds it holds, that US debt becomes very expensive.
ajikeshi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
uhm… i think canada will be late to the party in that case… us bonds are currently being sold by basically everybody… so their interest rate for new issued ones currently skyrockets… this will wreck the government in 20, 30 and 40 years (or whatever the duration of the bonds are/will be)
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Are you American and can only consider the goal to be to make profit? Consider the possibility of the goal being to cause economic pain for the US.
You admit the US bonds are currently in a precarious position. All the more reason why putting $450B worth of them onto the market would be effective in causing economic pain for the US. Sure Canada would lose money, but we’re going to lose a lot of money from this trade war anyway. I’m sure this would be considered like a nuclear option, only to be used if the US starts getting too crazy.
Besides, Canada will be making some money with the sale of bonds. That money can be used to offset the negative impacts of the tariffs. So US consumers pay higher prices while US government will pay higher interest on their debt so Canadians will get financial aid. Canada will transition away from US trade, while the US will decline.
ajikeshi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
not american, and sympathetic to canada, it was just meant as an observation due to how the global economy had been doing the last 1-2 years
fully agree here