Kai Risdahl

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13,684 appearances 88 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard yesterday

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Marketplace · Bond traders take a turn in the spotlight · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

Monetary policy dictated by the government's borrowing needs. voice-verified

You tend to see it in governments of like developing countries. voice-verified

Zimbabwe and Venezuela are some recent examples. voice-verified

Government debt got so high there that the central banks essentially printed money to help the government cover its debts. voice-verified

That led to hyperinflation, which is a very bad voice-verified

Fan. voice-verified

rates and the debt voice-verified

pay? voice-verified

Right now we are paying three billion dollars every single day, a trillion dollars a year to cover the interest on our debt. voice-verified

And that's happening as demand for new government debt, treasury bonds and bills and notes, that's going down. voice-verified

So the yields on thirty year bonds, they're at a nineteen year high. voice-verified

Both the ten year and the thirty year are above five percent. voice-verified

Without naming voice-verified

The obligatory caveat here is that the Chairman of the Federal Reserve is only one interest rate setting vote out of twelve. voice-verified

We should say, because it's true, that U.S. voice-verified

government debt is one of the safest investments in the world. voice-verified

So the Fed is not in a position like Venezuela's central bank or Zimbabwe's. voice-verified

But if and again, hypothetically, if the federal government gets too burdened with expensive debt, the voice-verified

Headwinds, you say? voice-verified

Well, the president is at war with Iran. voice-verified

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