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The simple formula for crashing the economy is to shrink the monetary base (cash in circulation plus reserves) while raising interest rates. The chart below plots the monetary base (down 15% year-over-year) against the 10-year Treasury yield (up from 1.56% to 3.98% over the past year). Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Vpb0 We are all but guaranteed a deep … Continue reading How To Crash The Economy
Why Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued short and intermediate-term Treasury securities (Bills and Notes) rather than Bonds when the Fed Funds Rate was at zero percent we will never know. We are now paying the price as the Public Debt rolls over at higher rates. See table below. Treasury Bills: T-Bills can have a maturity … Continue reading The Looming Treasury Debt Bomb
The Fed will continue to hike interest rates for the foreseeable future. Macroeconomic and geopolitical risks are increasing. Therefore, yields can only move in one direction (Up), but this story won't have a happy ending like the Pixar movie of the same name. That is good news for high yield investors, good news for savers … Continue reading Yields Will March Higher
Talking heads were out in droves on Thursday speaking about the illiquid Treasury market and how it may soon crack - triggering the need for Fed intervention. Sure, yields are moving around as the Fed tightens. However, this past week's movements in the 2-Year and 10-Year Treasury yields were not any more volatile than in … Continue reading Is The Treasury Market Really That Illiquid?
The Fed pared its Treasury holdings over the past week at a faster pace compared to any other week during this QT period. The Fed's Treasury holdings were approximately $37.9 billion lower over the past week and $56.8 billion lower on a rolling 4-week total basis. The Fed's Government Agency holdings were unchanged over the … Continue reading The Fed’s Balance Sheet Reduction (QT) Update
Expect global yields to march higher for the foreseeable future. The Fed would need to pause its rate hikes to stop yields from climbing. The Fed will continue to raise the Fed Funds rate, thereby pushing yields higher along the yield curve. We are in the midst of a global recession that is likely to … Continue reading Global Yields Will March Higher
The Bank of England stepped into the bond market, agreeing to purchase Government long bonds until October 14th. The BoE plans to restart its Government bond sale program on October 31st (the central bank plans to sell GBP 80 billion of bonds each year as part of its tightening process). How did the U.K. find … Continue reading The U.K., The U.S., Inflation & Real Yields
Real GDP: If the Atlanta Fed is correct, Q3 will be the third consecutive weak GDP quarter given the bank's Q3 Real GDP estimate of 0.3%, which follows two consecutive negative Real GDP quarters.Inflation: We expect inflation to be sticky when the CPI is reported on October 13th. Core CPI will remain elevated largely due … Continue reading GDP, Inflation, Yields, Currency & 2023 Earnings
It appears we were correct several weeks ago when we wrote that the Fed will maintain elevated interest rates for longer than markets expect. What are the repercussions for business? A persistently higher interest rate environment will expose hidden zombie companies much like the dry Paluxy River bed in Texas recently exposed dinosaur tracks. However, … Continue reading Higher Interest Rates & Growth
The Fed's balance sheet declined modestly ending the week at $8.91 trillion, down from $8.93 trillion and up from $8.76 trillion at the beginning of the calendar year and up from $4.17 trillion in January 2020 (just before the unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus programs of 2020 and 2021). As we wrote on Tuesday, the … Continue reading QT Has Only Just Begun
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