Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plans to intervene in bond markets has drawn widespread criticism, including from a prominent former mentor.

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• NYT Business left

  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plans to intervene in bond markets has drawn widespread criticism, including from a prominent former mentor.
• Bloomberg center

  Stanley Druckenmiller, the billionaire investor who mentored US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in his early career as a hedge fund trader, suggested his former pupil is making a mistake by wading into the bond market. Bessent has recently pledged to increase the Treasury’s purchases of long-dated bonds, a move widely seen as an attempt to push down yields in the world’s most important debt market. Jason Trennert, Chairman and CEO at Strategas Research Partners, discusses US Treasury Secretary
• CNBC left

  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond market interventions have generated a modest decline in yields along with a growing chorus of derision from those who think they won’t work over the long haul and could have dangerous repercussions. Read the full story: cnb.cx/4wOjBWm
• The Guardian left

  Stanley Druckenmiller said he was ‘proud of using it’ as wider media grapples with parameters around AI use Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire investor, said he used artificial intelligence to pen his viral Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he sharply criticized the interference of Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, in the US bond market. Many news outlets, including the Guardian, covered the editorial, highlighting Druckenmiller’s rebuke of his former mentee, Bessent. As the story cir
• Bloomberg News center

  Treasury Secretary Bessent’s surprise plan to tamp down US borrowing costs by expanding bond buybacks may have sparked fierce debate about its ultimate effectiveness, but key market metrics and positioning show that it’s having an impact.