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The U.S. Federal Reserve is trying to keep the coronavirus crisis from becoming an extended financial crisis. And the Fed's measures go beyond anything the central bank did during the Great Recession of 2009.
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The Fed has a major problem... In fact, as the chart above shows, Fed Fund Futures are pricing in a stunning negative 42bps rate in December 2020.
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Negative rate now shifting from Jan 2021 to Dec 2020 in what appears to be the next market test of the Fed, with stocks, bonds and now FX starting to actively price in negative rates so soon as 6 months from today!
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The U.S. has used inflation this way before. Economists Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion wrote: The average inflation rate over this period [from 1946 to 1955] was 4.2%...inflation reduced the 1946 [federal] debt/GDP ratio by almost 40% within a decade.
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The US gross national debt – the total of all Treasury securities outstanding – jumped by $1.05 trillion with a T in the four weeks since April 7 and by $1.54 trillion in the six weeks since March 23, to $25.06 trillion, the Treasury department reported today.
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