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Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's Efforts to Calm the Bond Market Haven't Worked So Far

Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's Efforts to Calm the Bond Market Haven't Worked So Far

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August 21st, 2026

Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's Efforts to Calm the Bond Market Haven't Worked So Far

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U.S. Treasury yields rose again on Thursday.

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ์ฑ„๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The 10-year yield reached 4.69%, close to its level before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced he would double the bond buyback program.

10๋…„๋ฌผ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์€ 4.69%๋กœ, ์žฌ๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€ ์Šค์ฝง ๋ฒ ์„ผํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ฑ„๊ถŒ ํ™˜๋งค ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Bessent said the buyback amount would rise from $2 billion to $4 billion per month starting next month.

๋ฒ ์„ผํŠธ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์›” 20์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 40์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ํ™˜๋งค ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

He said the program could grow even larger, adding, "We have a big toolbox."

๊ทธ๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ๋” ์ปค์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉฐ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํฐ ๋„๊ตฌ ์ƒ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Bessent argued that the yields do not reflect the underlying fundamentals.

๋ฒ ์„ผํŠธ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์ด ๊ธฐ์ดˆ ํŽ€๋”๋ฉ˜ํ„ธ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

But Wall Street still worries about rising government debt, big tech borrowing, and the Fed's commitment to fighting inflation.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์›”์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌํŠธ๋Š” ์ •๋ถ€ ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ฐจ์ž…, ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋Œ€์‘ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The Trump administration has made cutting rates its top priority, and higher rates have sharply reduced home buying.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธํ•˜๋ฅผ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ์‚ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ƒ์Šน์€ ์ฃผํƒ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ธ‰๊ฐ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

U.S. total debt surpassed $40 trillion on Wednesday.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ด๋ถ€์ฑ„๋Š” ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ 40์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„ฐ๋‹ค.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that this year's deficit will exceed $2 trillion.

์˜ํšŒ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์ฒ˜๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ์žฌ์ •์ ์ž๊ฐ€ 2์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Bessent said he would announce deficit reduction efforts by Monday at the latest. But Gennadiy Goldberg of TD Securities noted that the market is skeptical of the Treasury's actions.

๋ฒ ์„ผํŠธ๋Š” ๋Šฆ์–ด๋„ ์›”์š”์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ ์ž ๊ฐ์ถ• ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, TD์ฆ๊ถŒ์˜ ๊ฒŒ๋‚˜๋”” ๊ณจ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์žฌ๋ฌด๋ถ€์˜ ์กฐ์น˜์— ํšŒ์˜์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He said that cutting the deficit is mostly up to Congress.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ ์ž ๊ฐ์ถ•์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์˜ํšŒ์˜ ๋ชซ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Another factor behind rising interest rates is bond issuance by big tech firms for AI data center construction.

๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ƒ์Šน์˜ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์š”์ธ์€ AI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ๊ฑด์„ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ์ฑ„๊ถŒ ๋ฐœํ–‰์ด๋‹ค.

The war with Iran has also pushed up oil prices, adding to inflation pressure.

์ด๋ž€๊ณผ์˜ ์ „์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๊ฐ€๋„ ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์••๋ ฅ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Markets are watching whether Chair Kevin Warsh will clarify his approach in a keynote speech at next week's Fed annual meeting.

์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ์—ฐ์ค€ ์—ฐ๋ก€ ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ์ผ€๋นˆ ์›Œ์‹œ ์˜์žฅ์ด ๊ธฐ์กฐ์—ฐ์„ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ• ์ง€ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Mark Cabana of Bank of America said, "The ball is in Warsh's court."

๋ฑ…ํฌ์˜ค๋ธŒ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด์˜ ๋งˆํฌ ์นด๋ฐ”๋‚˜๋Š” "๊ณต์€ ์›Œ์‹œ์˜ ์†์— ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

UBS Asset Management cited cases in Japan and the UK, saying government bond market intervention had no lasting effect.

UBS์ž์‚ฐ์šด์šฉ์€ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ณผ ์˜๊ตญ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์ฑ„๊ถŒ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ž…์ด ์˜๊ตฌ์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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