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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: PhoolishPhilip   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: T-bills
Date: 02/24/25 6:46 AM
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Off to plain old short-term Treasuries I went (yes, we’ve bought our I-Bonds for the year)

Anyone want to convince me that this was unreasonable paranoia?

–sutton


Maybe not sufficiently paranoid? How safe are treasuries in the current environment? Trump was recently quoted saying:

“We’re even looking at Treasuries. There could be a problem … It could be that a lot of those things don’t count. In other words, that some of that stuff that we’re finding is very fraudulent, therefore maybe we have less debt than we thought.”

Add to that a fiscal and tax policy that is likely to balloon the deficit and you have a recipe for default, or at least the reasonable fear of default.

In this environment I’m wondering if foreign government bonds shouldn’t be part of a conservative portfolio?
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