Bessent Tried to Rescue the Bond Market. It Failed.

Trump picked the Federal Reserve chairman and still didn't get his rate cut. Three policymakers want rates higher, not lower. So his Treasury secretary is running the rescue himself — $4 billion against a $40 trillion debt.

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