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  1. Treasury doubled planned bond buybacks to $4 billion and the 30-year yield fell to 5.18%
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Treasury doubles long-bond buybacks as Druckenmiller warns against rate management

Political Guyentist · August 26, 20261 min read

U.S. TREASURY

Scott Bessent calls the purchases routine liquidity support; Stanley Druckenmiller says they amount to political price management.

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Stanley Druckenmiller is a billionaire investor who worked alongside Bessent at Soros Fund Management. He called the expansion “price management” and a “mistake.” His case is that holding down yields could hurt the market’s trust in Treasury and delay the harder work of cutting the primary deficit. Treasury says the program helps trading and does not target interest rates.