Ray Dalio Just Put a Three-Year Clock on a US Debt Crisis
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio told Bloomberg on Oct. 6 that the U.S. could face a debt crisis within three years as interest payments crowd out the rest of the…
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Bond Yields Hit a 24-Year High: Schiff, Ackman, Hayes Can’t Agree Why
The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at 5.47% on Sept. 24, its highest since February 2002. Peter Schiff, Bill Ackman, Brian Armstrong and Arthur Hayes are reading the hike in…
Druckenmiller Blasts Treasury’s $4B Gambit as Bitcoin Bulls Circle
The U.S. Treasury is pushing back against punishing long-term government borrowing costs, dragging a decades-old yield control debate back onto Wall Street just as bitcoin’s price rallies and traders start…
Bitcoin, Stocks and Gold Rip Higher While Bond Market Fear Festers
U.S. stocks ripped higher Friday while bitcoin held the $77,000 line after a nearly 24% weekly tear to a seven-day peak of $79,461, as softer Treasury yields gave markets breathing…
‘We’re Going to Increase the Buyback’: Treasury Boss Targets Bond Yields
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC Thursday that U.S. debt buybacks could blow past $4 billion per operation as Washington moves to steady a rattled long-term Treasury market and bitcoin…
Treasury Doubles Long-End Buybacks as Bitcoin and US Stocks Advance
The U.S. Treasury will at least double the maximum size of its buybacks for older long-term bonds to $4 billion per operation, a move that helped push yields lower and…
The Great Long-Bond Selloff Forces a Brutal Fiscal Reckoning
France’s 30-year government bond yield has surged near 4.85%, joining jumps in Germany, Japan, and the United States that expose a brutal reset in global borrowing costs. The synchronized selloff…
MUFG Eyes Instant JGB Repos as Blockchain Invades Bond Markets
MUFG has launched a pilot to test whether Japanese government bond repo trades can settle in real time on a blockchain network. The major Japanese banking group is working with…
Rick Rule Warns the Fed May Have to Print Again to Bail out Markets
Rick Rule says the biggest threat to markets right now sits inside high-yield bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that investors mistake for cash. The veteran resource investor made the comment during…
US Bond Market Cracks Show as 30-Year Treasury Clears Above 5% for First Time Since 2007
The U.S. Treasury sold $125 billion in new debt during the week of May 11, with buyers demanding the highest yields on 30-year bonds in nearly two decades. Investors Push…