By the way, I assume you are implicitly talking about the Federal reserve balance sheet ... http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/H41/Current/...
I make a product, and sell it for more than my costs and salaries. I've created a situation where my net assets are more than my liabilities, and...
Yes, but tax revenue stream is largely a function of price level, which is itself a function of central bank policy. People buy treasuries...
<b>Anaconda's Comment: Being that our tax paying ability is essentially collateral for the whole system, I think we have a right to know what...
Interesting take on this: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10291 The idea that since governments have a claim to tax revenues, which are derived...
I'm talking about real tangible assets, not monetary assets. The Federal reserve could come out tommorow and make the balance sheet have $1 on...
If you step back, as governments have the power to destroy debt just as easily as they create it, all while retaining the "assets" of the country,...
A = D + E If you increase E, A must increase, holding D constant. That's basic accounting 101.
This isn't a bad idea to keep reposting this poll.. then correlate analysis to actual performance. You never know.... after 6 months of data we...
Of course not. Many of these funds have mandates to keep those funds liquid or relatively liquid, ergo short term paper. The currency call is...
Well if the fund managers rolled those agency purchases into long term treasuries, the answer is no, not until they mature. If they bought...
I found this: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/pimco-dumps-80-billion-fed-sponsored-agencies-taxpayers-lap-makes-over-1-billion So if Pimco...
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Sure. Without a doubt, interest rates may have been higher. Or maybe not? Imagine without the money printing how risk assets and job losses...
Let me add why I don't qualify Pimco purchases of the debt (funded by MBS sales) as being equal to Fed purchases. YR 1: Fed buys 1T of...
The Fed has bought about 1T of agency mbs debt so far. they print money to do that, and expand the balance sheet. Then they've trapped that money...
No. Where did I say that? I am disputing the #s. They bought 1T of agency MBS and 300B of treasuries. The fed did not buy 80% of the deficit...
This is actually kind of comical. I never actually heard anyone cite CNBC as a reputable source so aggressively. Seriously. Its like...
I won't spend too much time with this, but here is an example of where Grayson came up with it:...
And its just a bad claim. There's more than enough data out there to refute it. Unless you believe there actually is no foreign demand for...
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