The rising
long-term USTreasury Bond yield has captured attention. The breakout
chart for the 10-year Treasury was pointed out here when it rose over
3.1%, hardly a high level. In the first week of May, a target of 3.5% was
cited, one easily surpassed. It zoomed to 3.75%, enough to create some
waves in the stock market distracted and preoccupied by nonsensical Green
Shoots talk on the psychological side and by falsified bank balance
sheets on the accounting side. Bigtime stress has come to the USTreasury
complex, a story difficult to mask and conceal, since it is at the
epicenter of the credit markets. Only on Wall Street can we hear lunacy of
less bad economic statistics (framed in sophisticated second derivative
arguments) amidst an absolute cavalcade of miserable news on the jobs
front, home foreclosure front, and home price front. So the unemployed
workers, dispossessed homeowners, and insolvent households will lead the
nation on a recovery, while credit approval is much more strictly applied
even to the creditworthy among us? Doubtful! Only on Wall Street can we
hear of the banks undergoing a healing process when huge credit asset
writedowns are replaced instead by convenient ‘Credit Value
Adjustments’ as booked profits on their books.
So a
stream of upcoming additional asset losses will lead an investment boom
by basic accounting fraud, calling them gains with SEC blessing?
Doubtful! The stock market rally is being called a ‘Sugar
High’ by the venerable Wall Street Journal, very accurately. Sadly,
foreigners are watching, and they are selling the USDollar down. They
observe the mountain of USTreasurys hitting the market
like Chain Letters bound in Treasury Auctions. They observe outright
monetized purchases of the Treasury Investment Protection Securities
(TIPS) designed as an inflation signal. With fading confidence, they are
selling the USDollar down the river. One might realistically perceive the
stock rally as based upon a flood of monetary inflation, given an assist by
blatant recovery propaganda, powered further by good old fashioned
accounting fraud.
Behind the bushes, a powerful
billboard message can be seen by the trained eye, accompanied by loud
signals audible to the trained ear. The US Federal Reserve will be forced
to continue the gargantuan monetization scheme. The first round was
announced in mid-March, for $300 billion in USTreasurys and $750 billion
in USAgency Mortgage Bonds. Most did not give a second thought, that it
was a one-time event. WRONG! The monetization news dealt a powerful
blow to global confidence in the financial system generally and the
USDollar specifically. The $1 trillion monetization will be repeated,
and even become a quarterly event, much like a constant sub-surface
flow of water to remove a foundation built upon sand.
The trip to by USDept
Treasury Secy Geithner should be viewed as a key reassurance to these
important creditors, later to be viewed as a betrayal. The Chinese
audience responded with loud laughter when Geithner assured them that their
$2 trillion in savings was safe and secure. This was a national
humiliation event, as Geithner has been muzzled. If only the USCongress
had such broad wisdom and deep courage to laugh when Goldman Sachs
henchmen ‘(Made Men’) from the syndicate gave regular
speeches laden with deception and rationalizations for their continued
fraud. Then again, the Chinese audience is not on the receiving end of
graft and bribery, nor the object of revolving
doors.
PLIGHT OF PRIMARY DEALER
PARTNERS
The group of 20 to 22 bond
dealers with contracts to sell USGovt debt securities are under siege,
suffering a grand new plight. This is perhaps the best kept secret in the
entire credit market right now. The USFed primary bond dealers are
being squeezed. They actually have some power to respond. They are at
risk, and face a possible rapid extinction. Despite the rising
long-term USTBond yield, money going into USTBond purchases in general is
growing like a powerful torrent. Demand for USTBonds is growing fast, very
fast. Bond supply is rising faster than demand though!! The role of
primary bond dealers is to hold inventory as intermediaries, a prospect
that makes those dealers LOSERS right away. Auction sizes one or two
years ago used to be $5 billion, $10 billion, even $15 billion on a given
month. Just last week the official auction was for $110 billion, a
10-fold increase. The pushback comes from these primary bond dealers, who
collectively possess the power to tell the issuer (USDept Treasury) and
the agent (USFed) that buyers just do not exist in sufficient volume to
absorb such huge regular supply. Fear has entered the hearts and minds of
the dealers. They will soon tell their bosses at Treasury and the USFed
that more monetization must come in order to lighten the supply load, or
else face a renewed crisis, at least horrendous negative publicity. The
credit market trucks are breaking down from the weight. The $300 billion
monetization sounded like a big amount, but it is not. That amounts to
two or three months in supply, if the $1800 billion in USGovt deficits is
to be financed. The $1 trillion monetization MUST BE REPEATED, and
even become a quarterly event. Refusal by the Treasury and USFed
to monetize could result in failed auctions, crushing losses by the
primary dealers, and their possible disappearance. Remember what happened
to private equity firms stuck with their own stock and bond inventory?
They went bust. That is precisely the risk to these bond
dealers.
FORCED MONETIZATION
COMMITMENT
The trend is clear for those
with open eyes. The official bond auctions will continue relentlessly,
probably well over $100 billion per month, for perhaps twenty months at
least. Worse, the USGovt federal deficits will be much bigger than
estimated. Here is a sobering fact. The USGovt tax revenues are down 35%
year over year. For the first time in history, the tax collection
month of April 2009 was a net negative month. Expect the USTBond
supply pressures to build, not reduce. My conclusion is clear. PURE
MONETIZATION WILL SOON BE A REGULAR QUARTERLY PROMISE. IF NOT, THEN A
USTBOND DEFAULT THREAT LOOMS NEAR ON THE HORIZON, OR A POWERFUL SUDDEN
STOCK MARKET COLLAPSE WILL ENSUE. A monetization commitment forestalls a
USTBond default at a later date.
Meanwhile, the economic impact
of this unremedied crisis will slowly be recognized. Watch the job
losses, which continue in huge numbers. Watch the home foreclosures,
which continue in accelerating numbers. Watch the national home prices,
which continue in steady declines. Recall that the USEconomic recovery
that began in 2001-2002 was built upon a housing bubble as a foundation.
The burst of that bubble is absolutely not a completed process. The
national insolvency will take its toll on USTreasurys as a certain
reflection. The debt downgrade (imminent, scheduled, expected, who cares
its label?) of the UKGilts two weeks ago should have awakened the world
to the perception of the USGovt debt as Third
World debt paper. The government finances of the are no
better and no worse than those of the . The global reserve status of the
USDollar and USTreasury, the greater size of the USEconomy, these only
guarantee that the impact of the fiasco have broader shock waves. The
fiasco is tied to the USGovt committed debt being transformed into debt
securities, the USTreasury Bonds. It is a gigantic hairball. It is like a
rattle snake swallowing a goat.
SPOTTING THE USTREASURY BLACK
HOLE
The USTreasury Bond supply
(skyrocketing) is growing much faster than the rising demand. The untold
story is that demand is rising in stride to take the rising bond supply,
FOR NOW. A rising USTBond long bond yield does not mean necessarily that
money exits. Price is determined as demand meeting supply. The rising
bond supply will be continuing, not just for a month or two, but for a
year or two or three, maybe four. Projected USGovt federal deficits are
due to occur for as far as the eye can see. Bond analysts knew that big
problems would result. They have begun. Huge USGovt debt commitments
ensure a skyrocket of continued USTBond supply. It is sucking in funds all
over the financial markets, like a Black Hole. The stock market is at
growing risk for its available funds. The primary dealers have the
ability to put pressure on fund managers of a wide variety. Those
managers will be urged to purchase more bonds, to alter their allocation
ratios, and to respond to government pressures. Some will be lured to
earn future favors. The Dow Jones Industrial stock index and the
S&P500 stock index have begun to stall, after quite a run powered by
short covering, relaxation of accounting rules, and widespread talk of
early sightings of recovery evidence. The gargantuan outsized USTreasury
Bond auctions must find funds to feed the beast, and the stock market is
a nearby target. The great Black Hole of USTBond issuance and sale has
the potential to draw the entire stock market into its vortex. The
conclusion is simple, and the USFed must respond. The $1 trillion
monetization MUST BE REPEATED, and even become a quarterly event.
Refusal by the Treasury and USFed to monetize could result in painful stock
market declines, the effects from which the public observes and
understands well. Their pain usually results in hue & cry, and if not
addressed, panic.
AWAKENING TO CRIPPLED
USDOLLAR
The USTreasury Bond cannot be
monetized without enormous damaging fallout to the global reserve
currency in the USDollar. It has begun to arrive, both to the USTreasury
Bond and USDollar. For many months, my analysis has stated that even with
intervention, either the USTBond falls or USDollar falls, guaranteed one,
since official pressure to aid one would render harm to the other. In the
last couple weeks, we have seen both fall in value, as colossal
mismanagement might be the global perception that prevails, as debt
quality is heavily scrutinized. The entire world is awakening to the
development of a dying USDollar. Watch the euro head back to 150 with ease,
then to 160 later this summer. Even the garbage British pound sterling is
running, whose possible impetus is not what one might think. The
commodity currencies are rising. See the Canadian Dollar, whose base
creation at 77-78 cents has preceded a rise over 92 cents. See the
Australian Dollar, whose base creation at 61-62 cents has preceded a rise
over 81 cents. To be sure, the recovery in the crude oil price has helped
power the rise, but more factors are involved. The Deflation Knuckleheads
should look to the crude oil price, and the commodity currencies for
guidance, even contradiction of their theories. The primary stabilizing
factor against deflation is the falling USDollar, which delivers rising
energy prices (now with natural gas), rising food prices, apart from
domestic banking challenges on the lending side.
The USDollar has fallen in a
very noticeable manner, enough to capture the attention of the world,
enough to force a meeting in Beijing by USGovt finance syndicate bosses.
The chart looks absolutely miserable, surely ominous, and very dangerous.
The daily chart has meaning, but the weekly chart has more meaning. Three
important cyclicals are shown. The relative strength is down hard, not
yet at the important trigger 30 level. The stochastix is down hard, not
yet near a crossover for rebound. The MACD is down hard, not yet showing
signs of a level reading. Watch for a powerful upcoming negative
signal, like in with the next two weeks, for a bearish crossover
event. The 20-week moving average (in blue) is close to crossing below
the 50-week moving average (in red). When it does cross below, expect a
powerful move in the DX index to 76 then to 72, for a bottom retest. The DX
dollar index has fallen below the critical 81 level, where past weekly
opens and closes were registered in December. That means a retest of
summer 2008 lows is guaranteed. Some speed bumps on the downhill are due
in the 77-79 interval.
Finally, bear in mind the
enormous fallout from USGovt and USFed actions, based in desperation.
The $1 trillion monetization MUST BE REPEATED, and even become a
quarterly event. The effect on the USDollar will be profound,
extremely deep, and potentially devastating. Confidence in the USDollar
is already shaken badly by events of the last 18 months. Promised
monetizations will only continue to shatter that confidence. As the
USDollar plumbs the critical support lows, and pushes to lower lows later
this year, the GOLD & SILVER PRICES WILL MAKE NEW HIGHS AND CAPTURE
GLOBAL ATTENTION. Both gold & silver price levels are resisting even
little selloffs. Be sure to avoid the Exchange Traded Funds, namely GLD for
gold and SLV for silver. It is highly doubtful that they hold gold or
silver bullion in claimed quantities. They are highly likely to be
leasing their bullion to the cartel in order to suppress prices. See
their prospectuses for names of gold cartel firms, whose names are
frequently listed among the biggest owners of staggering outsized short
positions on the COMEX in gold and silver futures contracts. Those are illicit Naked
Shorts!

USFED BALANCE SHEET OF LOUSY
QUALITY
Focus has been steady on the
USFed balance sheet. Not only is it huge, but it is loaded with toxic
assets. They cannot easily sell off their assets in order to drain the
excess liquidity from the credit markets, enough to prevent a spillover
into the USEconomy. Such a big drain would permanently cripple the
housing market, which would kill the banks. Doing so would cause a
USTreasury bear market of monstrous proportions, which would kill the
USDollar. Therefore, price inflation is coming for a simple reason that the
USFed cannot drain the excess liquidity, and cannot prevent a certain
eventual spillover. When price inflation arrives without welcome, or
even with welcome, the impact on the gold & silver prices will be
very big and very positive. The impact on USTreasurys is uncertain.
Holding the line on USTreasurys will assure a powerful negative blow to
the USDollar.
John Hussman makes two great
points on this very important matter. He claims that price levels can
remain under control only if the money velocity is held down
permanently. To maintain low money velocity, the banks must keep
their bank reserves over the current 95% level, something difficult to do
as they gradually approve new loans. He claims that price levels can
remain under control only if the value of goods & services is perceived
as less than the value of USGovt liabilities packaged in debt
securities. To maintain the USTreasury bubble will be difficult,
especially when supply is overwhelming, especially when price inflation
is seen as a growing future risk, and especially when foreigners are
diversifying out of US$-based securities. Hussman makes the strong point
that bank losses will continue, as new categories like commercial
mortgages and formerly pristine prime mortgages add to big losses, a
parallel point to mine. He concludes that the USEconomy will experience a
100% price inflation in the next decade, in order to bring back into line
the debt ratio to the US Gross Domestic Product. That angle of reasoning
makes perfect sense for a price inflation long range target. A double
in consumer prices and the GDP price component would result in a gold
price of $3000 per ounce, and a silver price of nearly $100 per
ounce.
THE GM STORM CLOUD (MINI
BLACK HOLE)
Volumes could be written about
General Motors, dubbed recently Govt Motors. The illegal trampling of
their bondholders is well covered. Their executives just requested $15
billion for walking around money during the bankruptcy hearing that began
on Monday. Actually it is for continued operating costs. So AIG is the
basket case ‘Ward of the State’ in the financial sector. So
Fannie Mae is the basket case ‘Ward of the State’ in the
mortgage & housing sector. Now General Motors is the basket case
‘Ward of the State’ in the industrial sector. Here is a wrinkle
that few have considered. The issue arose in the 2005 near death
experience suffered by GM. To confuse matters, the GM corporate bond
resolution might cause a firestorm. My guess is that 5x the volume of
CDSwaps are in circulation to insure against default of their outstanding
corporate bonds true volume. The orderly resolution of CDSwaps might
cause a powerful unwanted rally in GM bonds, even though dead. An
embarrassing situation perhaps is coming. The resolution of Lehman
Brothers corporate bonds was highly disruptive. GM has much greater debt
volume, $172.81 billion to be exact. Since 2005, the Powerz have
attempted to let GM bonds expire and roll over into more controllable
securities. It could become
wild.
GM is to emerge from the
restructure process much smaller company, geared to selling much less
profitable smaller cars. The United Auto Worker members are still
attached to the USGovt umbilical line, with cost. The new & improved
Govt Motors will be peddling a $40k electric hybrid called the Volt,
while Toyota continues its production of the $20k electric hybrid Prius.
Can anyone detect a price and experience differential in the financial
transmission? Anyone who has any knowledge of competition head to head
against government-run businesses should see the prospect of unexpected
future losses of great magnitude at Govt Motors. Competing against high
level bureaucrats who crowd executive offices is an easy prospect. Not to
be dismissed, the USGovt is certain to order huge fleet purchases. By
the way, evidence mounts that the main trait in common with the Chrysler
dealers shut down last month were their campaign donations to the
Republican National Committee by the victimized dealers. The business
of politics is very consistent. Watch for a similar theme in GM dealer
shutdowns. Just a footnote. The sale of the Hummer division is in the
news. Each vehicle sold to the USMilitary was subsidized by a $25k
payment directly to General Motors, to keep America
strong.
The nation would be better
served by giving every GM worker a $120k cash grant designed to assist
widespread business startups, like bankruptcy counseling, import-export
firms, internet software ventures, math-science tutoring, landscape
services, security for abandoned empty homes, tent city planning, second
sourcing for ammunition, research on the US Constitution versus fascism
and communism, even lemonade stands. If 10% of new business ventures grew
into viable businesses, that movement would easily eclipse the Govt
Motors rebirth initiative. The costs this year and next year to General
Motors will be staggering, whose estimates are way too low. The nation is
obsessed with supporting failed businesses, starting with Wall Street
banks, and now with industry in the heartland.
Jim
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