Ben Casselman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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came out with this plan that was meant to at least sort of calm down markets.
And what that was was to have the Treasury buy up billions of dollars worth of long term government bonds from investors to buy them back.
And
What that was meant to do was to sort of ease the market and bring down yields.
That was the theory.
That was the theory.
And and it worked for like a few hours.
And then pretty quickly, Treasury investors said, this isn't gonna work, and yields began to rise again.
And so we're now at this point where yields are up significantly.
And it it's not clear that there's much that the Treasury can do to to bring them down.
So remember, if part of the reason that yields are rising here is that the government is trying to entice investors to buy its bonds, then if the Treasury steps in and provides a huge new source of demand to buy up bonds, then it just doesn't have to compete as hard to to entice investors.
And that should bring down yields.
Econ 101, supply and demand.
The problem here is the Treasury market is huge.
Remember, we we said before a trillion dollars a day changing hands.
And the Treasury Department, as big as it is, doesn't have the firepower to really move that market.
They can throw in a few billion.
That's a drop in the bucket.
And so investors kind of once they got a chance to digest this, took a step back and said, You're not big enough to do this.
You can't really move the market in the way that you're claiming.
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