Bessent and Warsh may eventually forge a new Fed-Treasury accord, but they first need to regain the policy high ground or markets will keep adjusting to higher US fiscal and monetary policy uncertainty.

Expanded bond buybacks and yen purchases mark an unusually activist approach, but widening deficits could limit its effectiveness

Bessent’s effort to tamp down long-term Treasury yields could force Warsh to clarify how far the Fed should go in coordinating on bonds and the balance sheet.