{"id":77851,"date":"2026-08-25T02:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/us-treasurys-scott-bessent-will-lose-battle-with-bond-markets-former-mentor-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T02:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:55:42","slug":"us-treasurys-scott-bessent-will-lose-battle-with-bond-markets-former-mentor-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/us-treasurys-scott-bessent-will-lose-battle-with-bond-markets-former-mentor-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury\u2019s Scott Bessent \u2018will lose\u2019 battle with bond markets, former mentor warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ally should cut budget deficit rather than try to suppress bond yields, says billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller<\/p>\n<p>Scott Bessent\u2019s attempt to calm the bond markets and push down America\u2019s cost of borrowing have attracted a rebuke from the US Treasury secretary\u2019s former mentor.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who worked with Bessent at George Soros\u2019s fund management firm in the 1990s, has warned that his former pupil is courting danger by trying to suppress US bond yields.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/25\/us-treasury-scott-bessent-bond-buying-donald-trump-stanley-druckenmiller\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ally should cut budget deficit rather than try to suppress bond yields, says billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller Scott Bessent\u2019s attempt to calm the bond markets and push down America\u2019s cost of borrowing have attracted a rebuke from the US Treasury secretary\u2019s former mentor. The billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who worked with Bessent at George Soros\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"US Treasury\u2019s Scott Bessent \u2018will lose\u2019 battle with bond markets, former mentor warns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/us-treasurys-scott-bessent-will-lose-battle-with-bond-markets-former-mentor-warns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Treasury\u2019s Scott Bessent \u2018will lose\u2019 battle with bond markets, former mentor warns\">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-77851","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\/77851","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=77851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}