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As if the 'risk-less' dollar-swaps the Fed has extended to any and every major central bank were not enough, William Dudley just unashamedly admitted that the Fed now holds 'a very small amount of European Sovereign Debt'. Explaining this position, as Bloomberg notes:*DUDLEY: FED HOLDS OVERSEAS SOVEREIGN DEBT TO MANAGE RESERVES *DUDLEY: HIGH BAR FOR ADDITIONAL PURCHASES OF EUROPE DEBT Dudley, testifying to a House panel, noted that he doesn't see more efforts by the Fed to buffer the US from Europe's tempests and believes European banks are deleveraging in an orderly manner. So not only is the US taxpayer bailing out Europe via the IMF (as we noted here a week ago using Greece as an intermediary) and the Fed is providing limitless USD swap lines but now we join the ECB in monetizing European government bonds - something we warned might happen back in December 2010. As for being a small amount - wasn't MF Global's holding relatively small too? And aren't we getting a little full from all this buying?
Pero si se consigue la unión de Europa en un potente bloque, el resto se verá obligado a realizar dicho esfuerzo para poder competir y mantener el ritmo, que en definitiva de esto va la historia, una carrera sin fin. Que luego haya conflictos entre bloques o no, dependerá de los hombres, como siempre, y seguro que fricciones habrá, como siempre.Habrás que seguir meditando para poder aportar más a estas ideas esbozadas.S2
Demand for U.S. Debt Is Not LimitlessIn 2011, the Fed purchased a stunning 61% of Treasury issuance. That can't last.By LAWRENCE GOODMANThe conventional wisdom that nearly infinite demand exists for U.S. Treasury debt is flawed and especially dangerous at a time of record U.S. sovereign debt issuance.The recently released Federal Reserve Flow of Funds report for all of 2011 reveals that Federal Reserve purchases of Treasury debt mask reduced demand for U.S. sovereign obligations. Last year the Fed purchased a stunning 61% of the total net Treasury issuance, up from negligible amounts prior to the 2008 financial crisis. This not only creates the false appearance of limitless demand for U.S. debt but also blunts any sense of urgency to reduce supersized budget deficits.Still, the outdated notion of never-ending buyers for U.S. debt is perpetuated by many. For instance, in recent testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, former Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Alan Blinder said, "If you look at the markets, they're practically falling over themselves to lend money to the federal government." Sadly, that's no longer accurate.It is true that the U.S. government has never been more dependent on financial markets to pay its bills. The net issuance of Treasury securities is now a whopping 8.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) on average per annum—more than double its pre-crisis historical peak. The net issuance of Treasury securities to cover budget deficits has typically been a mere 0.6% to 3.9% of GDP on average for each decade dating back to the 1950s.But in recent years foreigners and the U.S. private sector have grown less willing to fund the U.S. government. As the nearby chart shows, foreign purchases of U.S. Treasury debt plunged to 1.9% of GDP in 2011 from nearly 6% of GDP in 2009. Similarly, the U.S. private sector—namely banks, mutual funds, corporations and individuals—have reduced their purchases of U.S. government debt to a scant 0.9% of GDP in 2011 from a peak of more than 6% in 2009.The Fed is in effect subsidizing U.S. government spending and borrowing via expansion of its balance sheet and massive purchases of Treasury bonds. This keeps Treasury interest rates abnormally low, camouflaging the true size of the budget deficit. Similarly, the Fed is providing preferential credit to the U.S. government and covering a rapidly widening gap between Treasury's need to borrow and a more limited willingness among market participants to supply Treasury with credit.The failure by officials to normalize conditions in the U.S. Treasury market and curtail ballooning deficits puts the U.S. economy and markets at risk for a sharp correction. Lessons from the recent European sovereign-debt crisis and past emerging-market financial crises illustrate how it is often the asynchronous adjustment between budget borrowing requirements and the market's appetite to fund deficits that triggers a shock or crisis. In other words, budget deficits often take years to build or reduce, while financial markets react rapidly and often unexpectedly to deficit spending and debt.Decisive steps must be implemented to restore the economy and markets to a sustainable path. First, the Fed must stabilize and purposefully reduce the size of its balance sheet, weaning Treasury from subsidized spending and borrowing. Second, the government should be prepared to lure natural buyers of Treasury debt back into the market with realistic interest rates.If this happens, the resulting higher deficit may at last force the government to make deficit and entitlement reduction a priority. First and foremost, however, we must abandon the conventional wisdom that market demand for U.S. Treasury debt is limitless.Mr. Goodman is president of the Center for Financial Stability and previously served at the U.S. Treasury.
Germany launches strategy to counter ECB largesseGermany is preparing a raft of measures to safeguard its financial system and prevent excess stimulus from the European Central Bank leaking into an inflationary credit boom.
(14) Sobre todo que según el LEAP/E2020, a fines de 2012 Eurolandia implementará una política proactiva de utilización del Euro para todos sus intercambios, incluso energéticos.
Queda aún mucha tela. Al sur de Europa le quedan muchos golpes, posiblemente los peores (quizás en Grecia no, pero al resto....) que sin duda vendrán impulsados por los picatostes del FMI (anglos), queda seguir destruyendo estados en cuanto tengan todo preparado (¿Siria?), catástrofes de esas que nunca sabes si son fortuitas (y este año de momento gordas gordas ninguna), etc.
Citar(14) Sobre todo que según el LEAP/E2020, a fines de 2012 Eurolandia implementará una política proactiva de utilización del Euro para todos sus intercambios, incluso energéticos.De producirse esto, unido a las noticias de estos días de la pretensión por parte de los BRICs de crear un "FMI sin dólares", sería el auténtico final del dólar. Da miedo pensar si EEUU, como imperio decadente, está dispuesto a tumbarse y morir... o no.
Tras la estupefacción, el único representante español en el foro, el diputado socialista y ex secretario de Estado para la UE, Diego López Garrido, pidió la palabra para exigirle que retirase unas declaraciones tan injustas e irresponsables.