Robert Peston

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The Rest Is Money · 311. Why is the US debt crisis a big problem for Burnham? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

I think it's very, very unlikely we'll see stability between Iran and the American president, you know, before the midterms. matched

Because why would Iran do Trump and the Republicans any favours over that period? matched

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The in Europe we've also seen the price of natural gas, actual gas as opposed to petroleum, uh, rising uh as a result of the tensions, the increased flare up of hostilities uh between America and uh Iran. matched

All of this stuff feeds through to the cost of living, all of it fleeds fleeds feeds through to um pressure on matched

inflation. matched

And for poor old Donald Trump, there's a sort of added humiliation, which is he thought he had appointed someone as the new head of the US Central Bank, the Federal Reserve in the shape of Kevin Walsh, who would cut interest rates. matched

Kevin Walsh has decided to be his own person and, you know, over the summer matched

uh in in the great gathering of central bankers at Jackson Hull and uh in his public utterances, Gavin Walsh has basically been signalling that he is worried about inflationary pressures. matched

Uh and markets now think the next move in interest rates by the US Fed will be upwards. matched

I I I I'm slightly anxious about Kevin Walsh because the American President Donald Trump it doesn't take kindly to matched

People that he's appointed to jobs, then not doing what he wants. matched

So, anyway, that's probably a story for another for another time. matched

Yeah, time. matched

But at the moment, uh, some would say Kevin Walsh is being quite courageous in basically speaking as far as he can as an independent analyst, as an independent economist. matched

And as I say, that there are all sorts of reasons to assume uh across the world that interest rates are going up. matched

When you get into that climate of consistency. matched

What happens? matched

The price of government debt falls, and that rise in interest rates becomes a self-fulfilling reality because you know the effective interest rate on on US government debt treasuries that has been rising, particularly at what's called the long end of the spectrum if they're borrowing for 10 and 30 years. matched

And of course, it's been even worse for the British government. matched

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