> But then something flipped. > Instead of being seen as a safe haven, U.S. debt itself started to look shaky. Maybe it was the deficit outlook, maybe the global response to tariffs — but whatever it was, yields started climbing. Fast.

So, it's not this unstable president, his insult-spewing vice-president and his buddy the hyperactive billionaire manipulating a social network for Russia and China that makes the rest world want to avoid the USA for the next few years?