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Can Trump drive down bond yields?

2025/3/25
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Aidan Reiter
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Katie Martin
一名在《金融时报》工作的金融记者和评论员,专注于全球经济政策和市场趋势分析。
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Rob Armstrong
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Katie Martin: 我认为"海湖庄园协议"不太可能实现,但政府仍然致力于压低10年期国债收益率和削弱美元。这与他们希望通过大规模减税来增加支出的目标有关。他们需要控制债券收益率,以确保政府能够负担得起这些支出。 此外,市场已经开始注意到政府控制债券收益率的意图,这可能会对债券收益率产生影响。 最后,即将到来的债务上限问题可能会加剧市场对美国国债的担忧,从而导致债券收益率上升。 Rob Armstrong: "海湖庄园协议"的核心是通过一系列措施,包括关税和与主要贸易伙伴谈判,来削弱美元,以解决美国巨额经常账户赤字问题。该协议还包含一个"付费游戏"机制,即以长期国债换取贸易优惠和军事保护。 然而,该协议存在内在矛盾,因为它试图通过附加条件来影响美国国债市场,但这与国债作为无风险资产的特性相矛盾。 此外,政府的目标也存在内在矛盾:他们既想要弱势美元和低债券收益率,又想保持美元的储备货币地位。 我认为,政府可能正在采取其他措施来控制债券市场,例如增加短期国债发行量,以暂时降低债券收益率。但这存在风险,因为如果长期国债收益率上升,则可能导致更大的问题。 Aidan Reiter: 我认为现任财政部长Scott Besant通过增加短期国债发行量来控制长期国债收益率,这与前任财政部长Janet Yellen的做法类似。 增加短期国债发行量可以暂时降低债券收益率,但如果长期国债收益率上升,则可能导致更大的问题。 Besant正在押注债券收益率的未来走势,这存在风险。 此外,政府试图控制债券市场可能会削弱国债的安全性,从而影响市场对国债的需求。 最后,我预测油价将上涨,因为特朗普政府更关注的是提高美国石油产量,而不是降低全球能源价格。

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The podcast discusses the proposed Mar-a-Lago Accord, a plan to weaken the dollar and restructure the global economy. The plan involves pressuring trading partners to strengthen their currencies and potentially using US government bonds as leverage. However, the plan's viability is questioned, and recent statements suggest it's unlikely to happen in its original form.
  • Stephen Moore's paper, "A User's Guide to Restructuring the World Economy", proposed various methods for the Trump administration to address the US current account deficit.
  • The Mar-a-Lago Accord suggested that the US could convince its major trading partners to strengthen their currencies to weaken the dollar and boost US exports.
  • The plan also involved a "pay-for-play" model with US government bonds, offering incentives to investors in exchange for purchasing long-term or perpetual bonds.
  • Economist Stephen Moore recently stated that the president's priority is tariffs, not the Mar-a-Lago Accord, suggesting the plan is unlikely to be implemented.

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President Donald Trump has been clear he wants lower interest rates. Cheaper money would goose the market and give the government room to spend. But interest rates haven’t exactly been co-operating. Today on the show, Katie Martin, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter discuss plans to move the needle on long-term bonds, from the stalled “Mar-a-Lago Accord” to Treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s embrace of shorter-duration bonds. Also they go long the price of oil and short the 10-year Treasury bond.  

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