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Bessent's Yield Defense Draws Fire as $40 Trillion Debt Approaches

Stanley Druckenmiller warns that Treasury buybacks to suppress longer-dated yields mask a $2 trillion deficit and will ultimately fail without fiscal reform

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27,191+1.19%
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