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Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's efforts to stabilize the bond market have not worked yet

Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's efforts to stabilize the bond market have not worked yet

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August 21st, 2026

Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's efforts to stabilize the bond market have not worked yet

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U.S. Treasury yields rose again on Thursday.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ์ฑ„๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.

The 10-year yield was 4.69 percent.

10๋…„๋ฌผ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์€ 4.69%์˜€๋‹ค.

That is close to the level. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he would double the bond buyback program.

์ด๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€ ์Šค์ฝง ๋ฒ ์„ผํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ฑ„๊ถŒ ํ™˜๋งค ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค.

Bessent said he would raise the buyback amount from 2 billion to 4 billion dollars a month starting next month.

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

He said the program could grow even larger.

๊ทธ๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ๋” ์ปค์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He added, "We have a big toolbox."

๊ทธ๋Š” "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํฐ ๋„๊ตฌ ์ƒ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹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 several problems.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์›”์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌํŠธ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

These factors include rising government debt, big tech companies' large borrowing, and the Fed's will to fight inflation.

์ •๋ถ€ ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ฐจ์ž…, ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋Œ€์‘ ์˜์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์š”์ธ์ด๋‹ค.

The Trump administration has made cutting interest rates its top goal.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธํ•˜๋ฅผ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ์‚ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Higher interest rates have sharply reduced home buying.

๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ƒ์Šน์€ ์ฃผํƒ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ธ‰๊ฐ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

The total U.S. debt passed 40 trillion dollars on Wednesday.

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

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that this year's deficit will exceed 2 trillion dollars.

์˜ํ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.

๋ฒ ์„ผํŠธ๋Š” ๋Šฆ์–ด๋„ ์›”์š”์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ ์ž ๊ฐ์ถ• ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

However, Gennadiy Goldberg of TD Securities pointed out that the market is skeptical of the Treasury's actions.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ 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 reason for rising interest rates is big tech companies issuing bonds to build AI data centers.

๊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 raised oil prices, which increases pressure on inflation.

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

The market is watching the Fed's annual meeting next week.

์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ์—ฐ์ค€ ์—ฐ๋ก€ ํšŒ์˜๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

People are curious whether Chair Kevin Warsh will clarify his approach in a keynote speech.

์ผ€๋นˆ ์›Œ์‹œ ์˜์žฅ์ด ๊ธฐ์กฐ์—ฐ์„ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๋ชจ์ธ๋‹ค.

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

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

UBS Asset Management mentioned the examples of Japan and the UK.

UBS์ž์‚ฐ์šด์šฉ์€ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ณผ ์˜๊ตญ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

It said that government intervention in the bond market did not have a lasting effect.

์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์ฑ„๊ถŒ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ž…์ด ์˜๊ตฌ์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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