His exact quote:
"Last spring, in the midst of an equity market meltdown, and I have been trading for 40 years and I have never seen anything like this, right in an equity market meltdown the bond market went down by 18 points in one day..." he goes on to say that foreign markets sold a trillion dollars and it continues on today.
What you said is not what he said. You:
"for the first time in at least 40 years there was an OUTFLOW of foreign capital from US Treasuries"
There have been outflows in the past. He had not seen
outflows in a market meltdown, not that he had never seen outflows. He was clearly talking about 2020, not current 2021.
It was a ***** to find the actual numbers. I had just about given up.. no data released beyond March. They are here:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/data/secholdtrans/treasurybondsnotes20210531.htm
In millions Release date was May 2021.
2019 outflow of 133,489
2020 outflow of 540,042
Jan/March 2021 inflow of 4,271
Jan 2021 outflow 48,739
Feb 2021 outflow 65,464
March 2021 inflow 118,873