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Okay, hear me out now.

If one bond market story is good, two is better, right?

From American public media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizdal.

It is Wednesday, the 4th of October.

Good as always to have you along.

Everybody we are going to start today, where we started yesterday, except different.

Matt Levin, you might remember, ran us through the challenges that rising bond yields pose

for the federal government and for consumers.

The yield on the tenure treasurer note topped out yesterday at a bit more than 4.8%.

It is a little lower today, but nonetheless, we've still got some questions we need answered.

So we got city ready from Politico on the phone to talk things over.

It's good to have you back on a non-Friday.

Hey Kai, happy non-Friday.

Happy non-Friday.

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