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Worried about the US? Buy US Treasuries

But don't these current jitters, spooks and scares give you a feeling of deja vu? Yes, Virginia, for we've been here before - when America was headed for a budget gridlock in August last year (it wasn't called a fiscal cliff back then, but the mechanics are the same).

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