The Treasury’s bond-market intervention isn’t working. So what comes next?

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.

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio said the the debt buyback announcement this week fits into a larger pattern that could signal a forthcoming debt crisis.

The US Treasury secretary’s pledge to expand a bond buyback program in order to lower borrowing costs did little to quell market unease.

World’s biggest cryptocurrency on track for best week in more than three years

The dollar slipped on Friday and was set to end a bumpy week lower, as investors questioned whether the U.S. Treasury’s efforts to calm the bond markets might end up undermining confidence in the currency.

Dollar wobbles as Treasury's bond market buybacks raise fresh concerns  Reuters

Bond Yields Steady as Treasury Intervention Struggles to Convince  WSJ

Aug 21 : The dollar slipped on Friday and was set to end a bumpy week lower, as investors questioned whether the U.S. Treasury's efforts to calm the bond markets might end up undermining confidence in the currency.Those concerns pushed the euro up 0.13 per cent to $1.1694, on course for its fourth consecutive weekly ga

The injection of cash boosted prospects for risky assets and came as Donald Trump urged congress to pass new laws establishing rules for crypto.

Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's Moves To Calm The Bond Market Haven't Worked So Far  HuffPost

The market shrugged off the Treasury Department’s attempt to lower long-term bond yields, raising the question of what the Trump administration might do next. Yields on 30-year Treasury securities have recently pushed to levels not seen in some two decades, a sign that investors might be growing increasingly concerned

Why Treasury Secretary Bessent’s moves to calm the bond market haven’t worked so far  AP News

Interest rates rebounded Thursday despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to put a lid on longer-term borrowing costs

Interest rates rebounded Thursday despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to put a lid on longer-term borrowing costs

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Bond yields jumped Thursday, erasing the declines stemming from of the Treasury Department’s unusual intervention in the debt market a day earlier.

As the Fed’s minutes point toward possible rate hikes, Treasury expanded long-bond buybacks after 10-year yields topped 4.7%.