The man who taught Scott Bessent markets just torched his bond-buyback programme.
His mentor's verdict:
- Druckenmiller ran markets for 5 decades
- Calls this "price management", not liquidity
- $4B buybacks vs a $30T market = a subsidy to procrastination
- Suppressed yields let Washington dodge entitlement reform
His warning:
Every bps saved now costs multiples in delay.
Fix the deficit, or the bond market does it for you.
Wow.
Citadel said the quite part out loud:
Bessent's bond buyback program amount to “financial repression”.
This will weaken the dollar and send inflation surging.
In this era, you need an escape through hard assets.