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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: TH who wrote (14494)11/21/2008 9:03:47 PM
From: Aloysius Q. Finnegan  Respond to of 71426
 
<< True, but the 30 year is very unattractive due to the desire for more short-term "safe" treasuries. >>

Just how "safe" are the short term treasuries? I presume if your a foreign investor you can lose with respect to your own currency. Right? But how would holding short term treasuries not be "safe" for the US investor?
TIA