Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defends US debt policy

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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen disputed billionaire investor Stan Druckenmiller's assertion that her department had made the biggest blunder in history by not taking advantage of near-zero interest rates to sell more longer-term bonds...

Well, I disagree with that assessment, Yellen said when asked to respond to the accusation during an interview on CNN Thursday night..

She said the agency has been lengthening the average maturity of its bond portfolio and in fact, at present, the duration of the portfolio is about the longest it has been in decades...

Her comments followed a video clip of Druckenmiller saying, I literally think if you go back to Alexander Hamilton, it was the biggest blunder in the history of the Treasury and I have no idea why she has not been called out on this..

Unfortunately, we had one entity that did not, and that was the US Treasury.. Yellen, in the CNN interview, said We have found in regular discussions with Wall Street professionals having regular and predictable issuance of maturities across the spectrum both long, intermediate and short is critical to having deep and liquid markets for US Treasuries, which is critical to lowering our costs over time...

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