Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in Treasuries, citing ‘poor’ U.S. government finances

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/akademikerpension-us-treasury-greenland-trump.html

48 Comments

  1. Addative-Damage on

    I’d be surprised if this doesn’t become a larger trend, even if just from a purely pragmatic perspective.

    The longer the US goes in this direction, the more volatile our markets and currency will become. Our policies are already disturbingly unpredictable and illogical.

    Yes the breakdown will impact the global market in general, but at least other countries are working/trading together normally enough that it’s a safer bet to get out of the US

    (Just my thoughts, I’m not an economist)

  2. PirateHunterLife on

    Sell off treasury funds only for billionaires to buy them up and really own the government

  3. Ijnefvijefnvifdjvkm on

    They don’t really need to sell. Europe could just announce that they are never again buying us treasuries.

  4. Moist-Emergency-3030 on

    This is very very very small amount. FYI outstanding US treasuries is around 35 trillion. This is barely error. Likely already planned. It’s not the news we all hope for and not something to get excited over. Decoupling from US treasuries will take a lot longer than people want.

  5. The US has the strongest military in the world, but what good is that if you can’t feed and pay them. The rest of Europe needs to dump their US Treasury Securities as well, which will send a clear message even Trump and his administration will understand.

    As an American, it pains me to say this but the US is done. The US cannot be trusted to lead anymore. Time for someone else to. And at the end of the day the only people Americans can blame is ourselves.

  6. The bond market has been flashing a lot of crazy warnings lately that equity investors don’t want to hear because they’re drunk off bull market profits. Liberation Day should have been a warning to everyone when a massive bond sell-off happened rather than an influx from equities. The 10-year and 30 year-year are spiking between U.S. policies and the massive rate spike in Japanese bonds. The U.S. has trillions of debt that has to be re-financed in the near future and 6+ months of work to get rates under control just went out the window.

    This is a nice little warning shot fired the U.S.’s way to remind them the rest of the world doesn’t need bullets to do damage them.

  7. Bitter_Director1231 on

    Everybody who has US Treasuries should drop them.

    Get them without firing a shot.

    It wil cripple the US to begging status 

  8. Likely just a toe in the water approach. See what the ripple effects will be and go from there.

  9. **SELL AMERICAN TREASURY BONDS AND OTHER INVESTMENTS**

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    If you want to get the attention of Trump and Corporations running America… **Tank our economy.**

    **MONEY IS THE ONLY THING THEY CARE ABOUT**

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    I will be one of the ones that will feel this but it’s the only thing that change the course we are on.

    **We, being decent human beings, (FOR THOSE THAT ARE MAGA… THIS IS NOT YOU) will survive this.**

  10. Seeing as I had an American public school education, can someone explain what does any of this mean please.

  11. Makes sense. The economic superpower of Anerixa is transistioning to an isolationist, aggresive new fascist empire, allied more with other despots than modern democracies. On this course the collapse of the USD as the reserve currency is very likely, and China’s taking the place, so of course it is sensible to ditch treasuries.

  12. SlowMotionSprint on

    As bad as his handling of a COVID was, the one benefit it had to Trump was it overshadowed how bad he was for the economy.

    Most presidential administration policies have lagging indicators. Trump was one of the few presidents where you could see how bad his economic policies were in real-time.

    But they were able to push the blame for those onto COVID even though the damage was done long before the pandemic started.

  13. So for the less financially literate of us, what are the expected impacts of this? I imagine it’ll be a hit to the US economy, but I’m not really sure how. Will this also have knock-on effects for the rest of the world?

  14. This will hose US faster than any bullet or bomb and us just a drop in the bucket of what is to come from global bond holders (China etc).

  15. S&P is already down 2% today – wiping off $1.23tn.

    Its not going to take many actors to act to to cause some very big damage to the US’s finances and pension funds.

    This was always going to be an economic war first.

    We allow know stocks fall on bad news, then they source of the problem is removed and they then back bounce.

    Seeing your 401ks dropping temporarily while the source of the problem is problem fixed isn’t such a bad thing in the grand scheme of things

  16. I dumped all my treasuries and divested completely from US equities a year ago. The US economy is now just a casino run by trump, where all the games are rigged by trump. No thanks.

  17. I am in an investment forum and the vibe in there is “the stock is not falling, I guess it will be okay to grab Maduro and Greenland” or “What stock to buy if we get greenland”. These people cares nothing except their portfolio. This is what capitalist does to people, they confuse money with moral.

  18. Global people and businesses that have tons of capital benefit from the dollar collapsing. Trump is a Russian asset and Putin is demanding the end of the US dollar and the end of NATO.

    Get ready for prices to go up and the value of your dollar to plunge. And world, get ready for America when it gets hungry. We still have the largest military in the world, are apparently in league with Russia to conquer Europe and I expect we’ll see general strikes if this keeps up.

  19. hughcifer-106103 on

    Soon the $ will cease to be the world’s reserve currency and it will massively crash due to the debt run up by Dump and Republicans that only works if we’re the reserve currency. Say bye bye to the vast American wealth overnight if that happens.

  20. I work in Real Estate, largely institutional investors like pensions with billions invested indirectly through funds, with large US allocations. Many of the conversations I’m having across European clients show they’re winding down their positions in the US and refocusing in new markets, like Europe and APAC.

  21. People don’t realize how much US debt Europe owns. The tariff card really only works once, then countries adapt. Trump played the card too early and on something stupid.

  22. VagueSomething on

    Gen Alpha will be the last generation to remember the USA being the default Superpower of the world.

  23. GreenGlassDrgn on

    Another fun fact is that if you have any american financial dealings that require you to report to the IRS, most banks in Denmark will refuse to have you as a customer.

  24. TheFutureMrGittes on

    Countries should start selling off their US Treasuries. No need to talk to the administration. Time for talk is over

  25. This will cause some real economic damage.

    Other countries have been signaling that they might do the same.

    This would damage all of the economies involved, but the US will experience the worst consequences.

    So can someone tell me: was the “great” in MAGA the Great Depression? Because we’re almost there.