The threats from US reliance on foreign financial flows
This Focus examines the large financial inflows to the US that have accompanied the country’s persistent current account deficit. It argues that those inflows face several growing threats which risk, among other things, disrupting the performance of some US financial markets. But our base case remains that the features of the US markets that have made them so attractive to investors will survive those threats.
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