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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Graeme Wearden

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

US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent
US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent (pictured) worked with Stanley Druckenmiller at George Soros’s fund management firm in the 1990s. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

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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