Stockman: "After March 15 Everything Will Grind To A Halt"
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Stockman: "After March 15 Everything Will Grind To A Halt"
“I think what people are missing is this date, March 15th 2017. That’s the day that this debt ceiling holiday that Obama and Boehner put together right before the last election in October of 2015. That holiday expires. The debt ceiling will freeze in at $20 trillion. It will then be law. It will be a hard stop. The Treasury will have roughly $200 billion in cash. We are burning cash at a $75 billion a month rate. By summer, they will be out of cash. Then we will be in the mother of all debt ceiling crises. Everything will grind to a halt. I think we will have a government shutdown. There will not be Obama Care repeal and replace. There will be no tax cut. There will be no infrastructure stimulus. There will be just one giant fiscal bloodbath over a debt ceiling that has to be increased and no one wants to vote for.”
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Looks like some dark clouds ahead, however, I find it difficult to believe that the administration is not already working this issue.... They are, after all, business people... Cheers, RickO
+1
You guys are discounting the imagination and resourcefulness of the government with regard to down-the-road can kicking.
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I'll take the other side of that forecast...
nothing a printing press can't solve
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
Boo!!
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will affect confidence which will affect gold.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
You still sticking pins in that David Stockman voodoo doll?
nothing will grind to a halt...there is always the next election to worry about
Loves me some shiny!
If Clinton was Potus, I could see Cruz and some of his cohorts really holding out, regardless of the risk of default, we've seen it before, this time it would have been even more contentious, But with control of congress and the house and the senate not wanting to torpedo DT so early in his term, they'll be happy to pass a spending bill. And while I'm sure Stockman is a pretty smart guy, he certainly has a poor track record on predicting markets and the future.
Of course, the wild card is DT, he might think he could default on treasuries and buy them back for pennies on the dollar, as part of his business model.
I can still hear my 10th grade English teacher, Miss Sarbough, intoning, "Beware the Ides of March!!"
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What's all the worry? We will just get the putin bailout.
The debt ceiling will likely be raised. Even if some Republicans in Congress balk, I expect the majority of them along with plenty of Democrats to go along. Neither the R's nor the D's want to be accused of "shutting down the government" after what transpired a few years ago.
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Doesn't need money to keep running. Credit works just fine.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
One thing Trump knows, is how to get out of a financial mess.
Legally and illegally, he's most likely done it both ways in the past.
Now he has that wonderful option of a money printing press, something he never had before.
Watch out!
Could get very interesting.
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Buckle the seat belts, when business and politics collide - anything is possible...Cheers, RickO
Gotta love the market. Metals make for a good trade , too.
The optics (politics) of it would make me think that it would be best for the Republicans to quietly submit a new debt ceiling legislation and move on to other things. Can't blame the minority party on this and I don't think the minority wants to get in the way. I think it will be a relatively quiet blow-over storm.
Bump to keep this thread visible until at least March 15th.
I have no doubt that the jellyfish in Congress will raise the debt ceiling like a helium balloon on a 100 degree day in July.
I knew it would happen.
Why's that?... no one gonna be able to post after the 15th???...
one party will delay and drag it out to make the other party look bad.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
that's funny.... no matter how deep our debt, or high our ceiling.
Why's that?... no one gonna be able to post after the 15th???...
Because I'm likely to forget about this thread between now and then,,,,and I am curious to see if anything at all happens.
I wanna see if Stockman is even close on this one.
I knew it would happen.
Stockman will be spot on. He speaks from experience as a former white house budget director.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
I haven't heard anything on the debt ceiling in the media and were not far away...I wonder what is going on behind closed doors.
Lmao!!!
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The senators and representatives are busy trying to figure out how to skim money from the public and feather their own nests with obamacare light. That's what's going on behind closed doors.
Stockman has a classical finance background and knows government finance as well. At least, he knows how it used to be played. Maybe not so much since the national debt = $20 trillion. Not counting unfunded liabilities, which nobody talks about.
So what happens when PBGC runs out of money to pay the teamsters union and the other retirement plans that are about out of money? I'll give you one guess. Hint - it won't be coming from JPM.
I knew it would happen.
The National Debt will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, be repaid. Ever. There may be national emergencies, there may be wars with other countries, there may even be SOME pay down of the debt. But there will always be an increase to the ceiling.
Repayment will not happen. It just won't.
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I agree with the above...the debt is never intended to be repaid.
don't tell those that hold it. lol
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
@derryb if they don't realize it already.... well that's on them.
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The problem with too much debt is when the debt service eats up everything else.
Repayment? There's no way in creation that repayment will happen. The only way repayment is even possible is via hyperinflation or default. Repayment per se' just isn't going to happen.
I knew it would happen.
I'd be happy just to see a balanced budget, let alone any debt reduction.
Let's start there.
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Balanced budgets require actual decisions over priorities. No politician wants to be held responsible for making 49.9% of the electorate mad.
I knew it would happen.
And at about the same time FED says it will raise rates. LOL
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
And if all that debt is converted into 50 or 100 year maturities? Suddenly it's easily manageable.
Mexico and Disney have 50 yr debt. Why can't the USA?
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A quarter point, half point, 1, 2, 3, 4 or even 5 points would not hinder repayment.
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You are correct only if there is never to be repayment. A rate increase creates a need for more borrowing to pay the higher interest. An increase in borrowing costs, when expenses are greater than income, always hinders repayment.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
A rate increase would spur economic activity and thus create more tax revenue. The Fed has finally figured this out. Japan and Europe are beginning to come out from behind their ego also.
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just like the last rate increase did? lol
The FED is still trying to figure out where they went wrong before, during and after the last big crisis. And it's so simple. . . just quit blowing bubbles.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
Yes it did.
The Fed does not create bubbles. Regulations and investors create bubbles.
You are always looking for the Great Evil One, when in fact it is us.
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FED policy is instrumental in providing the funding and the incentive for asset bubbles to expand. Believe what you wish at your own peril.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
Lol. Just because I'm handed a shovel doesn't mean I have to use it.
Personal responsibility is completely lost one you.
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The bubbles we are witnessing indicate a lot of digging going on, mostly at the institutional level. And yes, FED policy has fueled it.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
50 yr debt. Bingo. The solution to mortgage debt, credit card, and student loan debt. I'm surprised no one thought of this before. And when that starts to reach stressful levels....bring on the 100 yr Mortgage.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has called on Congress to raise the United States debt limit "at the first opportunity."
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
Of what bubbles do you speak?
Show me a chart of a major asset class that looks like the nasdaq from 1990 to 2000, or gold from 2001 to 2011, or oil from 2002 to 2008.
Some valuations might be at upper bounds, but there are no bubbles. If prices of the major assets double in the next 2 years then I'll agree...and what a wonderful time we will have had.
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cohodk,
Wouldn't you say that the stock market has been the refuge of cash seeking returns in the face of microscopic interest rates, and that stock prices have consequently been bid up to levels beyond the underlying values? I'd always thought that was the definition of a bubble.
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Yes, a bubble would be when price far exceed "tangible" values, but specifically over a short period of time. There needs to be an extreme valuation difference....such as silver going from 4 to 50 in 8 years, or 9 to 50 in 3 years.
How exactly would you say stocks are overvalued?
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When the prices rise so sharply and at such a sustained rate that they exceed valuations justified by fundamentals a bubble has formed.
most can't identify a bubble until it is no longer a bubble. Unfortunately bubbles lose air much faster than they gained it.
One of the ways to know that equities are overvalued is to compare them to economic output. According to CNBC "right now, the total market cap of the Wilshire 5000 index as a percentage of U.S. gross domestic product is about 120 percent, far above the 45-year average of 75 percent."
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey