Justin Ho

dollar, they have plenty of options.

Brendan McKenna with Wells Fargo says investors could also park their money in corporate bonds, which you need dollars to buy.

Same with mortgage-backed securities.

You could park it in just a savings account, right?

Investors have been considering these options because they're not exactly thrilled about investing in U.S.

treasuries right now.

Sebastian Malaby, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says between the president's tariffs, his attacks on Federal Reserve independence, his intervention in Venezuela, and now Iran... You just have this series of ad hoc policies that undermine the idea that there's a stable hand guiding the system.

But Malabi says investing in Europe or Asia is looking risky too, especially since the war is making energy more expensive.

Compared to that, the U.S.

economy looks relatively more stable.

Christopher Vecchio, head of futures and FX with the research company Tasty Lives, says investors are basically just sitting on their dollars.

Vecchio says no matter what investors think of U.S.

treasuries, the dollar is always going to be in high demand because the global economy runs on dollars.

I'm Justin Ho for Marketplace.

That's Tim Dewey, chief U.S.

economist at SGH Macro Advisors.

He says even though there's less demand for labor, the supply has been shrinking too, thanks in large part to the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.

As a result, Dewey says labor supply and demand have been coming into balance.

El crecimiento del salario ha comenzado a estabilizarse.

Hemos visto que las ganancias anuales, o el crecimiento del salario, se han bajado entre 3.7 y 4%.