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US Treasury’s Scott Bessent ‘will lose’ battle with bond markets, former mentor warns

Policy desk, National Trade News (2026-08-25): Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm the bond markets and push down America’s cost of borrowing have attracted a rebuke from the US Treasury secretary’s former… Primary source: original at The Guardian (theguardian.com).

· The Guardian

US Treasury’s Scott Bessent ‘will lose’ battle with bond markets, former mentor warns

Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm the bond markets and push down America’s cost of borrowing have attracted a rebuke from the US Treasury secretary’s former mentor.

The billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who worked with Bessent at George Soros’s fund management firm in the 1990s, has warned that his former pupil is courting danger by trying to suppress US bond yields.

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