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Think about the last time you were at the beach on a warm summer day.
Sitting on the sand, you look out at the ocean and it's blue as far as the eye can see, massive.
And it's one of those days where the water looks tranquil, inviting, and calm.
Now,
the FT's Capital Markets correspondent Kate Duguid tells me that the way I'm describing the ocean is sort of also how you can think about the US Treasury's market.
The Treasury market is the biggest and most liquid market in the world.
And like the ocean's waters,
the influence of the market for U.S. government debt is spread around the world.
They're also held by nearly every investor on Earth.
They're held by foreign central banks, by foreign governments.
And the market is also the way that the Federal Reserve executes monetary policy.
But under certain circumstances, if something goes wrong,
those calm waters can quickly turn into a storm.