into the crypto sector at an increasing pace. I wrote about it here and this was recently confirmed by COINBASE CEO. To remain bullish on the sector though, it is vital to understand whether this money inflow will continue in the short to medium term and what are the main reasons driving the inflow.
bitcoin is by all means a digital version of gold and the reasons why the whole crypto sector is worth investing into.
in our analysis. There are real and more pressing macroeconomic reasons that will be driving - in the medium term - US interest rates down and institutional money into under allocated investment sectors such as gold and crypto.
problem which is apparent and it is - for now - discussed among few restricted circles of macroinvestors, by the likes of Jeffrey
Snider of Alhambra Partners, Luke Gromen and Erik Townsend of Macrovoices. In this interview Luke Gromen clarifies what are the reasons of the US$ liquidity shortage and the consequences of that. I will try to summarize and oversimplify a quite complex issue and a 40min interview into few lines:
- Since 20.3.19 Effective Fed Funds Rate (EFFR i.e the actual market interest rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans) stays above the Interest on Excess Reserves (IOER i.e the interest rate paid to banks for the
deposits they hold with the Federal Reserve above those required by banking regulation). This should not happen and it is a sign of the FED losing control of the price of money.
- Regardless of the concurring factors, of the numerous possible explanations and of the proposed solutions, this is practically a sign of lack of US$ liquidity, very likely a lack of bank balance sheet capacity. Why is this happening though? One major reason is because primary dealers have been financing the US$ government debt (i.e buying US
Treasuries) at an increasing rate, so much that the latest data points to 3
banks - Citibank, JPMorgan and Bank of America - holding together 25% of the US debt issued in 2018 (unfortunately I could not verify this statement with documented evidence). The consequence might be that the EFFR remains above IOER because US banks are choking on US debt and have no liquidity left.
- The critical and more pressing issue is therefore not the state of the economy and the possible recession, but rather a US$ liquidity crisis generated by the US FISCAL problem which needs to be urgently addressed. If foreigners (mostly China) slow down their purchase of US Treasuries and the US private sector is running out of capacity, then the FED is obliged to step in and start again "printing money" possibly for an unlimited QE.
- The FED is cornered. The US stock market is basically the whole US
economy and some, as it represents 153% of GDP. Even a mild recession and a drop in the market capitalization of US stocks will mean that the US government might start missing payment obligations or will have to sharply cut down its military spending and other key expenses.
- Therefore the FED is obliged to cut rates and start again a massive money printing exercise. But differently from 2008 - when the exercise was deemed to be temporary - this time we know for sure that it will be not. It is becoming a permanent exercise to inflate assets and debase fiat currencies. And, like before, it is going to be global. Add that Japan and China continue to do so, the ECB also
- Germany recently announced that it is ready to run a deficit if needed and that
Trump presses the FED in that direction and we have all the most important indicators to point firmly in only one direction: more global money printing is coming and this will bring more fiat currency debasement and more real asset price inflation.
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