The bond market has been sending the U.S. government a message all week, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to talk it down on Thursday. The 30-year Treasury yield hit one of its highest…
Robin Brooks — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Robin Brooks has appeared on 4 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Marketplace. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Robin said
“So on a scale from one to ten, I'm a six or a seven.”
— Robin Brooks, on his level of worry about rising long-term bond yields.
“You're probably the single most important subscriber ever. So thank you.”
— Robin Brooks, responding to Kai Ryssdal's compliment on his Substack.
Episode appearances
4 The Treasury Department decided yields on the 30-year bond were too high and announced a buyback program this morning—an intervention that moved yields from 5.3% to 5.2%. But the real story is…
Long-term government bond yields are rising sharply around the world, a development senior fellow Robin Brooks of the Brookings Institution described as global bond markets having "caught fire."…
The Federal Reserve’s new chair, Kevin Warsh, held his first press conference and did something unusual: he gave no hints about what comes next. No forward guidance, no signaling about whether an…
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