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Treasury yields are on the march with some analysts suggesting Fed chairman Kevin Warsh is being “tested” by the bond market. But those who know the boomerang central banker well told Fortune that while Warsh will note market “teething” problems, a reaction shouldn’t be expected.

Yields have climbed higher as softer inflation and labor data have dampened the picture for Fed rate hikes, which the market has already priced in. Thirty-year Treasuries sit near 5.3%, heights which haven’t been seen since 2007. The 20-year is around the same mark.

Yields have been elevated since the conclusion of Warsh’s latest press conference following the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. In July, markets got the impression that they were perhaps doing some of the legwork for the Fed by tightening financial conditions with higher yields. Warsh also declined, as is his policy, to provide forward guidance, leaving analysts questioning whether the central bank would follow through with hikes.

“It is too early to draw firm conclusions, but the rise in the term premium and bear steepening of the curve following Warsh’s first two [Federal Open Market Committee] FOMC meetings could indicate that the Fed’s credibility is being tested,” said Bassam Nawfal, chief asset allocation strategist at Alpine Macro in a report yesterday.

Warsh’s defenders point out that he has been clear in his intention to bring inflation to heel at 2%. At his first post-FOMC conference in June, Warsh stated: “I’ve said for years inflation is a choice. You bet it is. And today I’m announcing that this Committee, unambiguously and unanimously, have decided we are going to deliver on that.”

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Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh has been clear: The central bank has gotten too comfortable sharing its expectations for the path of monetary policy, and believes its policy decisions have been hamstrung as a result. Wall Street is now blasting its response: Dialing back communications will be tolerated, a perceived void of information will not be.

The boomerang Fed policymaker (Warsh served on the Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011 under his mentor, chairman Ben Bernanke) has been consistent in his criticism of forward guidance—the practice of publicly sharing expectations of where short-term interest rates will go.

During a press conference following the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) last week, Warsh built on his thinking. In reducing forward guidance, he said, market prices can respond to economic data “in the direction and magnitude they see fit.” This ultimately benefits the Fed, he suggested: “The central bank need not always and everywhere be the center of attention … For our part, we need to observe market reaction to developments, direct and unfiltered.”

If reaction is welcome, markets delivered: Long-dated bonds spiked after Warsh’s statement and remain elevated, while two-year Treasuries slumped, reflecting expectations that the Fed would not be tightening financial conditions. The response from investors wasn’t necessarily in reaction to what Warsh did or didn’t say, J.P. Morgan’s Alex Wolf told Fortune, it was a reflection of newfound uncertainty.

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The discomfort stems, in part, from Warsh’s post-FOMC conference remarks, in which he indicated that patience with above-target inflation is wearing thin, while also suggesting that tightening of financial conditions was already underway, courtesy of rising yields on long-dated bonds.

“Markets are now questioning the Fed’s willingness to follow through on market pricing of hikes,” Alex Wolf, global head of macro and fixed income strategy at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, tells Fortune. “The perception … of the market doing the work for the Fed in terms of tightening financial conditions leaves a little bit of doubt around on the Fed’s willingness to then follow through on markets pricing hikes.”

The market is also being asked to digest meaningful shifts in Fed policy—the crown jewel of U.S. financial institutions—Wolf highlights: “Some doubts [are] creeping in because we have a new Fed chairman, we have many new structures in terms of the committees of the Fed, so you’re dealing with the Fed that the market is still trying to understand.”

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