8-31-26 Druckenmiller’s Bond Market Warning
The Real Investment Show Podcast
Release Date: 08/31/2026
The Real Investment Show Podcast
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info_outlineStanley Druckenmiller is warning Washington about the bond market, but the real message may not be an impending debt crisis. The bond market may have already delivered its verdict.
Lance Roberts examines Druckenmiller’s criticism of Treasury intervention, Scott Bessent’s expanded long-term Treasury buybacks, and why attempts to manage yields could create a bigger problem than the initial intervention itself.
0:00 INTRO
0:53 - Labor Day Preview, Kevin Warsh Review
4:53 - US-Venezuela Oil Deal
6:08 - August Into September Markets
12:09 - Pumpkins, Spice, & Sickle and Hammer
13:14 - Stanley Druckenmiller & AI
15:41 - Druckenmiller's Bond Warning
18:12 - The Bond Buy back Operation
23:23 - Warsh Wants the Fed Out of the Bond market
25:40 - What Druckenmiller Said vs What's being read
28:10 - What You Should Do if You Own Fixed Income
33:12 - If there's not Crisis...
35:46 - The Myths of Long Term Investing, Part-3 - The Math of Loss
42:55 - Why Valuations Matter
45:35 - When You Retire Matters
Hosted by RIA Advisors' Chief Investment Strategist, Lance Roberts, CIO
Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer
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