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Subject: Re: Pretend I?m On the Ballot
Date: 08/24/26 12:23 PM
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The regimes press secretary said it out loud, very early on. They use "alternate facts".

Well, there they go again.

Trump, Vance and Bessent try to calm the bond market with 'alternative facts'

In response to the growing crisis surrounding the bond market and the national debt, President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are trying to talk the crisis down.

And they are doing so with their usual brand of nonsense and ... er ... “alternative facts.”

The most charitable explanation is that they simply think the $40 trillion Treasury bond market has somehow got it wrong and is mispricing interest rates and risk. That would be truly remarkable — and would offer the greatest one-way bet in financial history.


msn.com - Trump vance and bessent try to calm the bond market with alternative facts

And the cure? Not reduced spending. Not increased taxes. The cure is "growth", and the universal GOP prescription for "growth" is "JC" tax cuts, like they enacted last year. Not working? Give the "JCs" even more!

Steve
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