How much will higher yields affect the debt burden?
While the rise in Treasury yields over the past four months could increase the US government’s interest costs by about 0.3% of GDP over the next year, it is unlikely on its own to shake investor confidence in the government’s debt-servicing capacity, at least in the near term. The bigger risk in the coming year would be a sharp rise in short-dated yields.
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