“We will do whatever it takes to support them in a way that helps the American economy, the American taxpayer,” Bessent said in an interview on CNBC two days after confirming Treasury had joined Japan’s finance authorities in an intervention to prop up the yen.  -Reuters, 8/4/26 Wall Street traders and strategists say US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is sending fresh signals that he’s eager to keep bond yields from spiking higher.  First, he staged the US’s first currency

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Real yields on 10y USTs have hit the highest level since 2023. -Lisa Abramowicz, Bloomberg, 7/22/26 … if global real interest rates returned tomorrow to their historical average of roughly 2%, given the existing level of US government debt and large continuing projected deficits, the US would likely experience an immediate fiscal dominance problem. – St. Louis Fed white paper by Charles Calomiris, 6/2/23 Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell finds himself in a place no central