At the hearing before Congress on Thursday, March 25, 2021, Fed Governor Jerome Powell was adamant that any resurgence of inflation in the US would be temporary (inflation above 2% for 2021), transitional and would in no way affect the Fed’s target of average inflation of 2%. But rising Federal Reserve bond yields point to increased inflation expectations.<\/p>\n
President Joe Biden’s $1.9bn fiscal package poses several risks that may be extraordinarily strong in the run-up to the recovery of the US economy and the global economy.<\/p>\n
by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a9The law of intellectual property is prohibited in any way unlawful use\/appropriation of this article, with heavy civil and criminal penalties for the infringer.<\/em><\/p>\n Except for countries with strong reserves of foreign reserves and satisfactory levels of liquidity such as Russia, Indochina, Singapore, emerging markets are beginning to feel these strong risks in the form of capital flight (Turkey).<\/p>\n In addition, one can comfortably ask the question of what the fed’s degree of independence is when the government issues debt of a frightening magnitude and the FED is potentially its main buyer, currently ignoring the burden on the Fed’s balance sheet ($3.8trillion Q32019) to ($7.7trillion Q12021).<\/p>\n The FED is the main buyer of this government debt as the bond market is saturated due to near-zero and\/or negative yields.<\/p>\n The influx of Joe Biden’s $1.93 billion fiscal package will also determine the growing increase in sellers relative to buyers, which is distinguished by the yield on the 10-year government bond from 0.920% (December 31, 2020) to 1.730% (March 19, 2021) (Data: Trust Economics).<\/p>\n So, it is this increase in the yield on the 10-year bond that shows the risks of high inflation, an increase in the level of public debt, fiscal growth, employment, and upwards moving interest rates in the future.<\/p>\n So, when this fiscal expansion begins in both the U.S. and global markets, the Fed’s options will be:<\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> It will be forced to raise borrowing rates, creating a big drop in capital markets and the real economy later.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> It will accept as something inevitable increased inflation because of its monetary policy.<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> FED will accept a state of stagnant inflation.<\/p>\n To avoid increased inflation in this situation, it is necessary to:<\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> There should be a greater increase in the size of productivity than an increase in the size of inflation.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> To drastically increase the level of deposits, so that this massive increase in incomes does not find the whole way out with increased consumer spending.<\/p>\n They will have<\/span> to<\/span> make another calculation,<\/span> changing the percentage of expenditure directed at specific consumer food products,<\/span> affecting the establishment of the<\/span> Inflation<\/span> Index.<\/span><\/p>\n It is possible<\/span> if<\/span> the<\/span> pandemic continues and since to date the pandemic has changed the<\/span> distribution of<\/span> expenditure and households.<\/span> We<\/span> must<\/span> not<\/span> miss<\/span> that<\/span> the<\/span> measurements<\/span> of<\/span> price<\/span> increases<\/span> during<\/span> a<\/span> pandemic<\/span> are<\/span> extremely limited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the hearing before Congress on Thursday, March 25, 2021, Fed Governor Jerome Powell was adamant that any resurgence of inflation in the US would be temporary (inflation above 2% for 2021), transitional and would in no way affect the Fed’s target of average inflation of 2%. But rising Federal Reserve bond yields point to … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[391,6],"tags":[28,433,434,44,27,435],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-analyses","category-publications","tag-fed","tag-fiscal-expansion","tag-fiscal-package","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rates","tag-jerome-powell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}