RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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You can’t just sweep $40 trillion in U.S. national debt under a rug and forget about it — or so the bond market appears to be telling Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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You can’t just sweep $40 trillion in U.S. national debt under a rug and forget about it — or so the bond market appears to be telling Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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The US is scooping up treasury bonds in an effort to raise their price and push yields down – but it’s not working The bond market is driving the Trump administration crazy. Last week, the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, announced that the government would sharply ramp up its purchase of treasury bonds, in an effort to raise their price and thus push down their yield, which amounts to the interest rate the government pays on its debt. It didn’t quite work as planned. Yields on treasurys fell after Bessent’s bond market intervention but soon bounced back. By Friday afternoon, the yield on...
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Treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm bond markets is a sign of weakness not strength “Look, there’s nothing magic about that $40tn number,” the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, told CNBC insouciantly last week, as the country’s debt mountain surpassed another bleak record. Yet Bessent’s decision to intervene in government bond markets in an effort to combat soaring yields belied his studied calm in TV interviews – and reignited fears the US may be on the road to a debt crisis. Continue reading...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 4 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “The Treasury’s bond-market intervention isn’t working. So what comes next?.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — US and UK.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Guardian US (Aug 23, 2026, 10:53 UTC); the most recent came from MarketWatch (Aug 24, 2026, 13:02 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “treasury secretary scott bessent”.
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