One Of The Greats Warned We Are Now At The End Of The Road Of Monetary Activism
KingWorldNews.com
November 19, 2019
oday one of the greats in the business warned we are now at the end of the road of monetary activism.
At The End Of The Road
November 19 (King World News) – Peter Boockvar: “As you know I’ve argued that the BoJ and ECB are at the end of their road in terms of monetary activism. An article today from Bloomberg News said:
“An unprecedented level of concern about damaging side effects of Japan’s multi decade experiment with ultra low interest rates has gripped policy makers, regulators and legislators. The key takeaway: fiscal policy is set for a more prominent part during the next economic downturn.”
Now, the Japanese have also experienced 25+ years of Keynesian fiscal spending building a lot of nice roads and bridges that were just steroid shots into an economy that always wore off so the complexion of the fiscal policy will be most important…
It’s All On Us
Again, we are realizing that when it comes to financing the exploding size of US debts and deficits, it’s all on us. Foreigners are not only not helping, they continue to be outright sellers of US Treasuries. In September, foreigners were net sellers of $34.3b of US notes and bonds after selling $30.5b in August. This brings the year to date level of selling to $82b. Back in 2011 and 2012 foreigners were net buyers of $400b+ in each years. China and Japan, our two biggest foreign holders, continued to be sellers. Don’t worry though, the Federal Reserve is back to monetizing US debt by a total of $60b per month in T-bills.
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