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Bessent Threatens ‘I Am The House’: Bond Traders Should Listen

While Bessent aimed his threatening comments at yen currency traders, the media is taking notice and presuming the words were also directed at the US Treasury markets. Don't Mess With Markets), he argues the 30-year yield is " the only fiscal disciplinarian the U.S.

Bessent Threatens ‘I Am The House’: Bond Traders Should Listen

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While Bessent aimed his threatening comments at yen currency traders, the media is taking notice and presuming the words were also directed at the US Treasury markets.

Don't Mess With Markets), he argues the 30-year yield is " the only fiscal disciplinarian the U.S.

has left," and that " every basis point of artificial yield suppression is a subsidy to procrastination." Fed Chair Warsh has limited forward guidance to better hear the bond market's message.

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While Bessent aimed his threatening comments at yen currency traders, the media is taking notice and presuming the words were also directed at the US Treasury markets. Don't Mess With Markets), he argues the 30-year yield is " the only fiscal disciplinarian the U.S. has left," and that " every basis point of artificial yield suppression is a subsidy to procrastination." Fed Chair Warsh has limited forward guidance to better hear the bond market's message.

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  • Bessent helped George Soros bet against the Bank of England's currency peg in 1992, earning them roughly $1 billion in p...

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In our summary of Druckenmiller's editorial (Druckenmiller Has A Warning: This runs opposite to Warsh and Druckenmiller's views. There's a real irony here, as we elaborate in a section below.

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