US TREASURY: Short Term T-Notes Auction

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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Even though the Federal Reserve announced its interest rate decision yesterday, Jerome Powell wasn’t the government official investors were most anxious to hear from.

Instead, he was upstaged by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who gave an update on the size of upcoming bond auctions. Although many were concerned about the US selling new debt into a market where interest rates are high and demand for bonds has flagged (pushing yields way up), the market liked what she had to say.

Yellen explained that the government would focus on shorter-term notes rather than longer-term ones, which prompted a rally for 10 and 30 year bonds.

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USA nears DEFAULT while Europe INFLATES!

Posted on May 2, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned yesterday that the US could run out of money to pay all its bills as early as June 1st if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before then. The US’ first-ever default would be disastrous for financial markets, economists say.

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Meanwhile, Europe’s painful inflation has inched higher, extending the squeeze on households and keeping pressure on the European Central Bank to unleash what could be another large interest rate increase. Consumer prices in the 20 countries using the euro currency jumped 7% in April from a year earlier, just up from the annual rate of 6.9% in March, the European Union statistics agency Eurostat said today. Food price inflation eased a little, falling to an annual rate of 13.6% from March’s 15.5%, while energy prices rose a more modest 2.5%. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and fuel, slowed slightly but was still high at 5.6%, underlining the expectation that the ECB will press ahead with its campaign to beat inflation into submission with rate hikes.

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OPINIONS: Stock Markets VERSUS Economic Vision?

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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  • Markets: Stocks ran on a treadmill yesterday as investors waited for the high-stakes inflation report to drop this morning. Major cryptocurrencies have emerged as the biggest winners of 2023 so far, and Bitcoin topped $30,000 for the first time in 10 months.
  • Dueling economic visions: Depending on who you ask, the economy is doing just fine…or it’s about to slow down dramatically. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said yesterday that “the US economy is obviously performing exceptionally well.” But that’s not obvious at all to the IMF, which predicted weak global growth this year and gave its gloomiest five-year economic forecast since 1990.
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US DEBT BUSTERS: The 1 TRILLION DOLLAR Coin

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The Legend of the $1 Trillion Platinum Coin

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You may have heard that a deadline to suspend the debt ceiling is rapidly approaching, and if lawmakers don’t do anything it could lead to “economic catastrophe,” in the words of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

But what if we told you there was a solution to the debt ceiling fiasco so crazy…it just might work?

The solution: Yellen could have the Treasury mint a $1 trillion platinum coin, deposit it at the Fed to “retire” loads of US federal debt, and then enable the government to carry on with business as usual without having to worry about defaulting on its existing debt.

But can the Treasury really do that? Yes. According to Section 31 US Code § 5112…

  • “The Secretary may mint and issue platinum bullion coins and proof platinum coins in accordance with such specifications, designs, varieties, quantities, denominations, and inscriptions as the Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, may prescribe from time to time.”

The law is crystal clear, and has been deemed kosher by numerous academics. “The statute clearly does authorize the issuance of trillion-dollar coins,” Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law professor, told Washington Monthly back in 2013.

In fact, nothing says we have to stop at $1 trillion. Yellen could go big with a $10 trillion coin, hypothetically. As Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal explains, none of this would lead to inflation because it’s merely an “accounting trick”—not an influx of money into the economy.

Have we tried this before? The $1 trillion platinum coin idea seems to pop up every time the US faces a debt ceiling crunch. It was first introduced by a Georgia lawyer in 2010 and gained traction during the debt-ceiling crisis of 2011.

Things really turned up in 2013, when the government was…you guessed it, facing another debt ceiling deadline. The hashtag #MintTheCoin became popular on Twitter, and economists like Paul Krugman advocated for unleashing the coin. “If we have a crisis over the debt ceiling, it will be only because the Treasury Department would rather see economic devastation than look silly for a couple of minutes,” he wrote.

But each time the $1 trillion coin is mentioned as a way of resolving debt ceiling problems, the people in charge dismiss it as a distraction from Congress doing its job. “Neither the Treasury nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to produce platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in the debt limit,” The Treasury wrote during…well, yes, another debt ceiling emergency in 2015.

As for our current predicament, the Biden administration rejected the minting of the $1 trillion coin yet again last week.

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Bottom line: Perhaps some enterprising future Treasury Secretary will manifest the platinum coin into existence, but for now it remains as mythical as Camelot.

MORE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2021/09/21/what-is-the-us-debt-ceiling/

COINS: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/2-democrats-say-they-want-to-mint-a-coin-to-solve-the-debt-ceiling-showdown-and-save-the-us-from-catastrophic-default/ar-AAOXLcU?li=BBnb7Kz

GOVERNMENT Rxn: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/heres-what-would-happen-if-washington-doesnt-prevent-a-government-shutdown/ar-AAODYi5?li=BBnb7Kz

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