Robert Armstrong
speaker
1,703 appearances
12 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 17 Sep
Robert Armstrong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right?
Like if you are going to take a shot at the bond market, you better kill it.
Yes.
You know what I mean?
You better hit you know.
And so then nerves are running high all of a sudden.
Well, they didn't get way worse, but they did get worse.
You could say it didn't have much effect.
I mean, what's wrong to begin with is that yields are creeping higher.
Oh you know, after coincidentally or not, after that second late July press conference by Warsh, we saw a move up in yields and yields have stayed high.
And from the point of view of the Treasury Department
The problem with high yields is
Is they make the US government harder to fund.
And the job description of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Uh, line one is fund the US government.
Right.
So this is a problem.
And you know, when you have as much debt as the US has, the interest rate on that debt is really important.
A couple of points of difference in that interest rate really swings the total deficit.
And you can get into a really bad spiral where the deficit gets worse because interest rates are.
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