Despite record spending, the dollar has only decreased 7-8% as measured against the basket of currencies in the dollar index.During the last five months, the US national debt has increased from $23.5 trillion to $26.5 trillion. This represents the fastest increase in net dollar amount and on a percentage basis in history.
"Inflation is hard to get going, the Fed has proven that as other central banks have," according to CME Group Chief Economist Blu Putnam, who also noted that the world's central banks have tried long and hard to achieve normal price inflation but have only succeeded in risk asset inflation. Veteran trader Jack Bouroudjian said the government is doing the right thing. "These are extraordinary times ... if there was ever a time to go out there and do some serious borrowing, it's when rates are low, not when they are high."Historically, there have been two ways that the market expresses its opinion regarding the government's fiscal responsibility: The strength of the dollar or the demand for US Treasuries.
Unfortunately, both of these traditional measures have lost efficacy of late. The dollar index measures the dollar's value against a basket of currencies with the euro and the yen disproportionately represented. Both of those countries' central banks and governments are presently involved in currency depreciating policies as well, rendering comparisons less informative.
US treasuries have been buoyed by the purchases of the Federal Reserve, making the current price useless in trying to ascertain organic demand. Sadly, we are left with few markets that we can use to gauge reaction to macroeconomic policies. Theprobably is not that there is an impending currency crisis. Most probably fiat proxies are signaling an uneasiness related to the lack of normal market signals.
CMEGroup BUSH, MISSING 2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS.
CMEGroup Just numbers on a computer, numbers on a computer... that’s it.
CMEGroup Ok, we noticed it has grown. What is your point?
CMEGroup Our kids and grandkids are screwed, that’s what that means.
CMEGroup Just write off the debt. Congress has the authority to issue currency, which is the same as paying all debt. It will not create significant inflation because most other countries are flooding the market with their currency as well, as the article says