5 Dividends (up to 9.3%) Washington Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Brett Owens, Chief Investment StrategistUpdated: August 26, 2025
Don’t buy all the “America First” talk coming out of DC. Truth is, Uncle Sam’s recent moves are quietly making foreign bonds—especially the 5 bond funds (yielding up to 9.3%!) below—great again.
What I’m going to show you is having a real impact on the government, everyday borrowers and, not least, our biggest winners: those 5 foreign-bond funds.
Let’s start with Scott Bessent’s Treasury Department. These days, it’s doing something unusual: issuing 80% of federal debt on the short end of the yield curve.
The short end, tied to the Fed’s policy rate, is the rate at which banks lend to each other.… Read more