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Bessent Doubles Yellen’s Hocus-Pocus Treasury Buybacks, Swapping Old Cheap Debt at a Discount for New Expensive Debt

By Wolf Richter

Hocus pocus works with the bond market only briefly. His last hocus-pocus, the big kahuna US-Japan joint intervention, fizzled in days and bond yields marched higher.