Treasury Department unintentionally humorous?

Read the first 4 responses to the tweet.

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Also, you have severe TDS.

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Wrong board.

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Also, you have severe TDS.

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care to address the topic?

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So don't buy treasuries? If the market is shite, as you imply, then you should be making bank on shorting.

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An easy metric to see if the market sucks or is doing well:

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When did this become a NASDAQ thread?

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When you quoted a text that talks about investors. You want to limit this discussion to bonds?

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You could always read the tweet? Neither it, nor I mentioned the broader market. No need. It stands on its own.

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Read the first 4 responses to the tweet.

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You mean the respondents who quip in response to Bessent ...
"You understand the higher it is, the worse it is for our country? You know that, right? Right?"
... with no clue as to WTF they are actually addressing?
Those first 4?

Bessent's post is about overall bond valuation, not just rates.

Worse yet, besides cluelessness about that distinction, those respondents don't even have the foggiest clue as to what rates are actually doing. They are yammering about "higher" bond rates at a point when, T-note rates are DOWN >20% since Trump took office. So not only are they unintentionally responding to apples with oranges, they brought bananas to make their argument.



However, rather than simple T-note rate assessment, Bessent's claim — "U.S. Treasuries are having their best year since 2020" — is a straightforward reference to the positive TOTAL returns for Treasury bonds in 2025, i.e., the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Index, or something similar expressing total valuation (bond income and bond price escalation combined) as his bar graph demonstrated.