{"id":77663,"date":"2026-08-20T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/why-is-the-trump-administration-causing-turmoil-in-the-bond-markets-richard-partington\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:56:52","slug":"why-is-the-trump-administration-causing-turmoil-in-the-bond-markets-richard-partington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/why-is-the-trump-administration-causing-turmoil-in-the-bond-markets-richard-partington\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Trump administration causing turmoil in the bond markets? | Richard Partington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As yields are dragged higher in the UK, Europe and Japan, the impact for consumers and businesses will be far-reaching<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/20\/us-national-debt-republicans\"><strong>\u2018Starve the beast\u2019? The $40tn cost of Republicans\u2019 false promises to cut spending<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Government borrowing costs around the world have surged to the highest levels in decades amid growing fears over US bond market turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Anxiety about Donald Trump\u2019s handling of the US economy, and concern that the US president\u2019s war with Iran is driving up inflation, are causing a sell-off in the US bond market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/20\/why-us-bond-market-turmoil-hitting-governments-worldwide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As yields are dragged higher in the UK, Europe and Japan, the impact for consumers and businesses will be far-reaching \u2018Starve the beast\u2019? The $40tn cost of Republicans\u2019 false promises to cut spending Government borrowing costs around the world have surged to the highest levels in decades amid growing fears over US bond market turmoil. &#8230; <a title=\"Why is the Trump administration causing turmoil in the bond markets? | Richard Partington\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/why-is-the-trump-administration-causing-turmoil-in-the-bond-markets-richard-partington\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why is the Trump administration causing turmoil in the bond markets? | Richard Partington\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}