What's Behind the Bond Market Rollercoaster
· 20 min
Episode What's Behind the Bond Market Rollercoaster
On today’s Big Take podcast, Stacey Vanek Smith and Bloomberg Opinion’s John Authers unpack the bond market rollercoaster: a sell-off, the highest US 30-year bond yields since the financial crisis — and a sudden intervention.
Read more: The 30-Year Itch Comes for Bonds — and Brazi
Further listening: What Higher Bond Yields Mean for Markets and Everyday Borrowers (Big Take Podcast)
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Hosted by Stacey Vanek Smith; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky and Victor Swezey; Guest: John Authers; Fact-checking by the Big Take team; Engineering by Zoltan Sindhu and Alex Sugiura. Senior Producer and editor: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.
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- https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-08-18/the-30-year-itch-comes-for-bonds-and-brazil?srnd=undefined
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-higher-bond-yields-mean-for-markets-and-everyday/id1578096201?i=1000684423419
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