Robert Armstrong

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1,703 appearances 12 recordings 3 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 17 Sep

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Prof G Markets · Why Bessent Tried To Rescue The Bond Market (And Failed) · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

Are higher, people get more worried about the sustainability of the debt, they push the Treasury yield up higher, and you're off to the races.

And you don't want to get into that kind of a cycle.

So you can see why the Treasury Secretary would be nervous.

Well yeah, no, this is what I was thinking.

Is this just gonna be an aerial campaign like the campaign in Iran?

Are we gonna bomb the uh bond markets?

Or is it gonna be a boots on the ground kind of thing?

Where Americ American lives are a risk, where you have like soldiers in the offices of investment banks uh exchanging fire with bond traders on the trading floors.

Gun to their

I mean, uh, it was an absolutely wild comment and there's no explaining it.

Uh but uh it it it caused some good laughs around the FD offices, I can tell you that for sure.

I would describe the performance of Warsh.

in his first two press conferences at the Fed as a bit vague.

Uh he said, I don't want to give forward guidance.

He used this confusing metaphor of the referee and the ball.

Uh, play play the ball, not the referee.

A metaphor I don't think really applies very neatly to what is going on here.

Uh he said he doesn't want to give forward guidance, but he didn't really give a strong indication of what.

He would do.

And and how how he he would kind of make sure that the Fed's position was clear enough in the markets.

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