When Does US Debt Become Genuinely Bad? | WSJ

(gentle music) - [Narrator] After the big tariff announcement, something happened that shocked economists, and it wasn't the stock market dropping, it was the value of the dollar dropping. Usually in times of market turmoil, it increases because investors are flocking to the US for safety. - We saw exactly the opposite.Money fled from the US for safety instead of to the US for safety for the first time in my memory. - That was a sign that something was getting different and that people weren't just shifting ...