Why an Unstable Bond Market Is a Big Deal

Why an Unstable Bond Market Is a Big Deal

Ones and Tooze · 2025-04-18

As tariff concerns rippled through financial markets around the world this month, the 10-year yield on U.S. Treasury bonds advanced 50 basis points. That is the most in more than two decades. Adam and Cameron talk about what fluctuations in the bond market mean and why it has put a scare in investors.

Plus, in the second half of the show, the costs and benefits of nuclear proliferation from the perspective of defense budgets, nuclear waste, and international security.
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Ones and Tooze

Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that explain the world: one drawn from the week’s headlines and the other from just about anywhere else Tooze takes us. Check out Adam Tooze’s column at https://foreignpolicy.com/author/adam-tooze/.

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