The real reason there was so
much capital inflow into U.S. debt in the wake of the news has to do with what I am labeling The Mutual Fund / ETF Problem.
Not exact matches
Perhaps the common - sense way to approach this is to accept the possibility that Chilean - style controls (taxes on short - term
inflows) may be useful for some countries during the transition, but not too
much should be expected of them (see the conclusions on Chile itself, which suggest that the controls managed to lengthen the maturity of the debt, without being able to prevent the exchange rate from appreciating during the phase of
capital inflow)(see Edwards (1998)-RRB-.
The fact that the crypto bellwether has fallen so
much and been the focus of so
much negative news may slow the
inflow of
capital into crypto hedge funds.
And, while slowing growth in China and
much of Europe may dampen currencies and incomes over there, there is still abundant non-U.S.
capital looking for placement and very strong demand for U.S. assets, as 2015 proved with record
inflows.