“Since the 2008 meltdown, the Fed purchased many financial instruments including mortgage-backed securities to arrive at the current $4 trillion balance sheet. It seems to us that the cornerstone of an exit strategy would be to securitize the mortgage-backed securities, and sell those back into the retirement and endowment funds.
A recent estimate of the total retirement assets just in the U.S. tallied close to $17 trillion. Packaging up those securities and distributing back into the system would go a long way toward a major reduction in the Fed’s balance sheet and make room for the continuing monetization of the budgets deficits which are sure to accelerate as the onslaught of unfunded liabilities hits the public and private sectors.
Rising interest rates would impact the value of those securities, but the Fed could easily make it so that buyers could value them at par for reporting purposes. Given the mortgage rates are only likely to continue higher, the likelihood of significant refinancing affecting the pools of mortgages is very low.
KWN readers should not be surprised if the idea outlined above will also be part of the plan going forward. This would offload tremendous liabilities off of the Fed’s balance sheet and open up their ability to print even more money. All of this is extremely positive for hard assets.”
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Worst day of the year for Dow , S&P 500
Fortune (blog) - 7 hours ago
... fears the central bank may be preparing to wind down its stimulus policies this year. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 353 points, or 2.3%. That marked the biggest one-day point drop since November 2011. Including Wednesday's losses, the Dow has erased more than 550 points in two days.
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I predict Kryptonite will be going up up up!!! :) Bookies predicting NYSE going down down down!!
optix Sould be going up
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I really wouldn't know James. (Seriously) Good story and linked back to site. Fair use?
Nor would I sweat it.
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Seriously troy, any tips on making this blog more ethical/compliant welcomed. I usually embed the whole site, yet this page impossibly formatted to do such.
Where do you hide the mouse? ;)
optix Nice work station!
On KW, its hard to figure out where DMCA starts and Jim ends :)
So much for the Copy Right ;)
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