Bond yields are high. They are likely to get higher. Indebted governments are betting that a productivity surge from AI will pay the bills—but it could be a while before the boost comes

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• The Economist center

  Bond yields are high. They are likely to get higher. Indebted governments are betting that a productivity surge from AI will pay the bills—but it could be a while before the boost comes
• Bloomberg center

  Underlying US inflation was subdued in July, likely easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.| The consumer price index, excluding often-volatile food and energy categories, increased 0.2% from a month earlier, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Wednesday. Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Decart makes so-called world models, which aim to simulate t
• Financial Times center

  Yields have jumped amid concerns over mounting public debt and persistently high inflation
• Guardian Business left

  Rolling coverage of the latest and economic news, as US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001 Gennadiy Goldberg, head of US rates strategy at TD Securities, agrees that the rise in US borrowing costs is “problematic” for the Trump Treasury, adding (via the FT): “They have to fund the government at more expensive levels.” “Investors are being asked to absorb a growing supply of government debt globally at a time when deficits remain large, inflation uncertainty persists.” “If