The shock has propelled some moneyed buyers to consider a new, high-tech type of residence: the self-sufficient safe house that can withstand storms and power outages.

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Instead, Bush said, the dollar is benefitting from flight-to-quality type buying on global economic slowdown worries since other safe havens such as the yen and Treasurys are also higher.

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Yet, because investors see bonds as so safe, they are now the fastest-growing type of emerging-market debt.

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