Fed Rate Hikes Will Increase US Interest Costs By $50 Billion

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Source: Zero Hedge
Published: 2026-09-14 20:55 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Politics, Business, Economy & Finance, Financial Markets, Tax & Budget, Business & Economy
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The biggest problem with the "short-terming" of the US Treasury stock, which under Bessent's extension of Yellen's Activist Treasury Issuance playbook, which pushed the percentage of T-Bills as a percentage of total debt to 23% - the highest since 2010 excluding the emergency surge during the covid crisis which relied entirely on Bills for government funding and briefly pushed the Bill percentage above 25% - even as total US debt rose above $40 trillion for the first time ever...
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