Are there any truly safe assets anymore?

Are there any truly safe assets anymore? Are there any truly safe assets anymore?

Satyajit Das, a former banker, is the author of “Traders, Guns & Money,” “Extreme Money” and “A Banquet of Consequences: Reloaded.”

Fearing a trade war-induced recession and financial crisis, investors are switching out of risky assets into government bonds and AAA or AA-rated securities. But this Pavlovian response introduces new and subtle risks.