The Economist

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Slip the surly bonds? A curious Treasury intervention

Financial Times

Increased purchases of debt threaten to undermine central bank chief Kevin Warsh’s bid to tame inflation

Bessent’s bond intervention puts US Treasury on collision course with Fed

MarketWatch

You can’t just sweep $40 trillion in U.S. national debt under a rug and forget about it — or so the bond market appears to be telling Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.