# Professor Lawrence White explains the recent surge in foreign investors buying US bonds

1 Faculty News July 6, 2016 ![Bankrate logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030934.jpg?itok=snzuY3k_)>

Excerpt from [Bankrate](http://www.bankrate.com/financing/banking/treasury-yield-crash-bad-sign-for-savers/) -- "'There's a lot of uncertainty and that makes investors -- the capital markets -- nervous, and they run to safety,' [White](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white) says. 'And safety, at the moment, is the U.S.'"

[Read more](http://www.bankrate.com/financing/banking/treasury-yield-crash-bad-sign-for-savers/)

Additional coverage appeared on [Fox Business](http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/07/07/record-low-treasury-yields-bad-sign-for-savers.html).