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U.S. Treasury Secretary, who told Newsmax the U.S. would combine unprecedented economic isolation with a continued Hormuz blockade of Iranian ports.
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Naked Capitalism says Bessent has moved to contain longer-dated Treasury yields, against the Fed. Duration holders should care more about that than about another Iran sanctions threat.
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A 30-year yield above 5.33% and Iran-driven oil prices are overwhelming good numbers from good companies. Walmart down 9% and Micron down 20% from its highs tell the same story.
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Proposed regs cap eligible investments at 0.1% in annual fees and require an unleveraged US equity index fund until the year the child turns 17. Seven million accounts are already open.
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Cipher AI's first month of data separates covert Russian content-farm seeding, laundered through Canadian accounts, from overt American influencer promotion. The defences are not the same.
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Proposed IRS rules would treat the refunded portion of four credits, including the EITC and Child Tax Credit, as federal public benefits, with a status test measured on the filing date.
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The 10-year sits at 4.696% and the 30-year at 5.284%, both through the markers the Treasury Secretary was defending. The long end is pricing credibility, not the next rate decision.
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Steve Hanke says a "deadly cocktail" has pushed Treasury yields through the informal 4.5% and 5% markers Scott Bessent defends, and he expects another 50 basis points on the 10-year.
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Millionaires captured more than half of post-pandemic income growth while poverty hit a record for a third straight year, per The City Reporter. Demand and politics both narrow.
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The GENIUS Act proposal extends liability to exchanges and intermediaries, including offshore firms touching U.S. customers, and demands documented due diligence on foreign issuers.
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The 60-day cease-fire window closed on the 16th. Washington is weighing secondary sanctions on Chinese buyers of Iranian crude while US pump prices run 29% above last year, three months from the midterms.
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Majidreza Hariri put a number on evading the U.S. naval blockade: about $18 billion a year in extra freight. The oil risk premium now rests on a sanctions regime, not a shooting war.
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The first joint US-Japan yen intervention in three decades moved the rate about seven yen and handed much of it back, leaving the carry trade as the live risk.
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Drone strikes on two ADNOC tankers on August 14 nearly stopped traffic through the strait. A US sanctions package due the week of August 17 will not reopen it.
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Leveraged funds cut net yen shorts from nearly 138,000 contracts to about 59,500 in roughly five weeks. The carry trade's risk premium has been re-priced by policy, not by rates.
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Treasury's $25 billion long bond sale drew the highest yield since 2001, a day after the priciest 10-year auction since 2007. Demand showed up, but only at a price.
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