The Treasury Put, Financial Stability and the Road to Fiscal Dominance

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SUMMARY

Three Treasury interventions in three weeks, EUR/JPY sales, FIMA request, doubled buybacks, read as term premium suppression. The Treasury put looks to have a higher strike than the Fed put.
Rising term premium squeezes the Treasury twice: it inflates the interest bill, and it threatens equities, the one asset class keeping US financial conditions loose. Debt management becomes financial stability.
Japan's bill buffer is spent. The next yen defence sells coupons into the long end or borrows through FIMA. By 16 September the cap has moved or it hasn't.

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