The Treasury’s bond-market intervention isn’t working. So what comes next?

MarketWatch·August 24, 2026 at 1:02 PM+1

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You can’t just sweep $40 trillion in U.S. national debt under a rug and forget about it — or so the bond market appears to be telling Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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