Either the Fed helps Bessent on Treasuries, or this recent intervention will fall flat (and probably do more harm than good, which is often the case when an intervention is attempted but doesn’t succeed).

"...the more durable expression is lower dollar rather than structurally lower rates..."

"The Treasury can address market plumbing, but it cannot buy back geopolitical risk, inflation risk or fiscal arithmetic."

A 5% long bond isn’t the crisis, it’s the receipt, and the fifteen years when money was free did far more damage to growth than normal interest rates ever will...

Either the Fed helps Bessent on Treasuries, or this recent intervention will fall flat (and probably do more harm than good, which is often the case when an intervention is…

The ultimate irony? This scenario could render Kevin Warsh’s internal debate about balance sheet reduction entirely academic. Instead of exiting the fiscal space, the central bank…

...the balance of risks tilted toward a rally, citing crowded bearish positioning, improving inflation data, and overstated Fed Credibility concerns...