Six-month and one-year Treasury constant maturities held at 3.77% and 3.82% on 15 May while 2026Q1 state-and-local nominal activity reached about $3.43 trillion, up from roughly $3.37 trillion in 2025Q4. Updated at 25 August 2026. Scope This edition of Policy Desk interprets US policy-sensitive rates, money-market funding conditions, and selected fiscal-accounting lines through FinUties endpoints. It is analytical commentary, not investment advice. The country anchor for this cycle is Turkey: where US liquidity and rate stability shape external funding and EM policy trade-offs, the note flags transmission channels without substituting incomplete Turkish prints for the US evidence base. Introduction This edition asks: why are policy-sensitive yields and liquidity prints turning, and into what front-end or funding state? Evidence answer (as-of 2026-05-19 UTC): general government gross debt at 112.0%. That is the read from prints already in this edition — not a forecast and not advice. On 15 May 2026, six-month and one-year Treasury constant maturities printed at 3.77% and 3.82%—unchanged from the prior stored pull on this node (~19 May 2026). The two-year held at 4.09%, the three-year at 3.69%, the seven-year at 4.43%, and the ten-year at 4.59%, likewise stable. Against that static rate-pricing surface, 2026Q1 state-and-local nominal activity reached about $3.43 trillion, up from roughly $3.37 trillion in 2025Q4 and $3.33 trillion in 2025Q3; the nonprofit-institution receipts adjustment line reached about $1.78 trillion in 2026Q1, up from $1.75 trillion in 2025Q4. Exploratory secured overnight financing percentiles sit in a narrow band (75th at 3.58%, 99th at 3.62%), yet daily policy-path, broad general collateral, and tri-party collateral feeds returned no parseable fields. Thesis: markets are not repricing near-term policy off this print, while sub-federal nominal stocks continue to accumulate—a decoupled pair prior Policy Desk editions already flagged—now with marginal colour on secured funding but persistent blind spots in money-market transmission. Structural backdrop (general government gross debt at 112.0% of GDP, old-age dependency at 17.9) is unchanged this cycle. Try this query Reproduce the P0 pull for this edition: - REST: GET /api/v1/rates/fed-h15-series?limit=50 - MCP query args: json {"domain": "rates", "resource": "fed-h15-series", "limit":…
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