According to BlockBeats, on August 25th, legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller directed his criticism at the U.S. Treasury Department. In a Wall Street Journal commentary published on August 25th (Beijing time), he criticized the Treasury's recent expansion of long-term Treasury bond repurchase programs, arguing that while seemingly aimed at liquidity management, it would actually weaken the bond market's ability to price U.S. fiscal risks.

The backdrop to this event is the recent sustained high yields on long-term US Treasury bonds, with the 30-year yield having previously reached a 19-year high. On August 19th, the US Treasury announced it would increase the size of its repurchase operations of 10- to 30-year Treasury bonds from $2 billion per transaction to at least $4 billion, covering the period from September 9th to November 4th. The official explanation was to support liquidity in the long-term Treasury bond market, but Druckenmiller argues that at the time, there were no abnormal situations such as auction failures, chaotic trading, or forced deleveraging. The Treasury's decision to increase repurchases at this time could easily be interpreted by the market as an attempt to suppress long-term yields.

In his view, rising yields are a warning from the bond market about the state of US finances. Currently, US inflation remains above target, unemployment is near full employment, the federal deficit is about 6% of GDP, government debt has exceeded $40 trillion, and net interest payments are rising rapidly. In this environment, rising long-term yields are not unexpected, reflecting investors' demand for higher compensation to cover the risks of fiscal deficits, debt expansion, and inflation stickiness.

Druckenmiller's real concern is that continued Treasury intervention in long-term bond yields will weaken Washington's pressure to maintain fiscal discipline. Lowering financing costs reduces the urgency to cut deficits, control welfare spending, and adjust the debt path. Furthermore, if the Treasury buys long-term bonds but finances them through short-term Treasury bills, the market might perceive it as a Treasury version of "mini-quantitative easing."

This is not an abstract debate in financial markets. Recently, US stocks, especially AI and highly valued tech stocks, have been extremely sensitive to long-term interest rates. Rising yields will increase the discount rate, compressing the valuation of growth stocks; while temporarily suppressing yields through policy tools may encourage risk assets to continue trading on expectations of further easing. Druckenmiller warns that if the market believes the government is maintaining a certain yield level, traders will repeatedly test the policy floor, potentially leading to greater volatility in the bond market.

His proposal is quite straightforward: let the bond market determine the government's borrowing costs while addressing fiscal issues head-on, including reducing the primary deficit, gradually reforming the welfare system, and managing debt more responsibly. Liquidity tools can buy time, but cannot replace fiscal adjustments. For the current market, US Treasury yields have shifted from a macroeconomic variable to a core constraint on risk asset pricing. How the Treasury handles long-term interest rates will continue to influence the trading direction of US stocks, gold, the US dollar, and crypto assets.

It's worth noting that Stanley Druckenmiller is a mentor figure to the current US Treasury Secretary. Bensent joined Soros Fund Management's London office in 1991, when Druckenmiller was a key trader/management figure at the fund. Both later participated in the famous 1992 trade shorting the British pound. Bensent himself has said that Druckenmiller invited him to join Soros Fund, and that Stan is his "true business mentor."

Another point to note is that the Duquesne family office of Stanley Druckenmiller disclosed in its latest 13F filing that it has established a new position in HYPE treasury stock Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (PURR), holding 2.9415 million shares, with a market value of approximately $23.15 million.

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According to BlockBeats, on August 25th, Lookonchain monitoring showed that the BTC holdings of Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company under Michael Saylor, have improved significantly in the past week: previously, the unrealized loss exceeded $9.5 billion, but it has now turned into an unrealized profit of over $4.7 billion.

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