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Bessent's Game of Chicken with the Bond Vigilantes

20 August 2026 23:34 RaboResearch

The Treasury Department’s extraordinary announcement to unexpectedly boost buybacks of longer-term bonds has only temporarily interrupted the rise in yields.

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