Market Intervention: Does It Last?
Ever since Soros and his Quantum Fund famously “broke the Bank of England” in 1992, market intervention has been viewed with a jaundiced eye. For this reason, the two most consequential interventions in August 2026 – the US Treasury’s expansion of long-end bond buybacks and the coordinated US-Japan yen defense – have suffered the same reaction: a sharp, immediate impact followed by a rapid partial reversal as the underlying structural forces remain unresolved.
September 2026

