Michael MacKenzie
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Bessent has no easy fix for what’s really driving yields up (opens the original)
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent came to office blasting his predecessor for trying to re-engineer the world’s largest bond market. Last week he took a stab at it himself. By buying back a swath of long-term United States debt, which will require selling more short-dated securities, Bessent said Thursday he’ll be doing “what I would call a Treasury twist.” It was a nod to the Federal Reserve’s famous 1960s plan to rejigger Treasury yields. Right now, Bessent said, those yields are out of whack w
Bond buyback makes Bessent the most interventionist U.S. Treasury chief in decades (opens the original)
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With a slew of unexpected maneuvers this year, Scott Bessent has emerged as the most interventionist Treasury secretary in financial markets in decades — putting his credibility on the line in an effort to quell a potentially damaging rise in U.S. borrowing costs. Wednesday brought the latest surprise. Just two weeks after releasing its schedule for buying back older Treasury securities, the Treasury Department announced it would “at least double” its planned purchases of outstanding 10-year to
Warsh’s faith in markets sidelines more nuanced Fed policy tools (opens the original)
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Kevin Warsh’s embrace of financial markets to help the Federal Reserve do its job would mean trading more precise policy tools for a blunt instrument. It can work, but it’s an inefficient way to bring down too-high inflation and comes with trade-offs, economists and former officials say. Central bankers typically use their benchmark federal funds rate to steer the economy because it allows for a level of fine-tuning that doesn’t exist when the market is left to its own devices. And, as then-Fed
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