Interesting - whilst just one ....little chart
- showing a little move...of just under a tiny 1% move - up - in interest rates/yield
- on US ....T-Bonds
But that little chart with the tiny move up ...could spell...a whole lotta trouble at t'mill.
Why - it's only approaching a tiidly 1% rise in interest rates ?
- well 1% of....Trillions is - a BIG BIG number
So - if everyone with a mortgage around the world (triilions of say dollars) - and they all have to pay 1% more interest....the 1% of Trillions is
- a BIG BIG number they have less to spend in discretionary "retail therapy" choice spending
- impact on company bottom line profits ?
- impact of less retail spending on Gov't VAT type tax income ??
If all the companies around the world - have to pay just 1% more on their borrowing costs - again that's 1% of Trillions in total borrowings
- That's another - Big Big Number
- Impact on company profits ?
Higher interest/yields on bonds - mean existing bond prices....fall
- big numbers - big hit to investors
- central banks hold trillions in bonds
- mark 'em to market and.....?
- well for a start - the drop would wipe out the FEDDY's mere 66 billion balance sheet capital
(erm....that makes the central bank...well...erm...insolvent).
If the US has to pay 1% extra on what it borrows - say 16 Trillion....that's a Big Big number - it can't spend on ...well. the stuff gov'ts spend on - health, welfare, food stamps etc
- or it has to borrow even more just to pay the extra interest it has to pay
- or it has to raise taxes
(oops - less dicretionary spending by the punters..into the economy again !)
Then of course....there's the small matter of ....interest rates/swaps
- in my speak they are a protection policy
- when you take out a loan at a variable rate
- if the rate goes up - the policy pays out the extra cost....but
- if the rate goes...down then in simple terms you pay the saving...to the bankster
Small problem - if the rate goes up 1% ....either the Banksters
- start having to pay out
- or they start to get less than - they had coming in before
And there is.....Four Hundred & Forty plus TRILLION in those interest swap derivatives
- so a piddly 1% impact into a 440 TRILLION market
- Big Big Number
Add .....all those impacts together and....it could spell trouble at t'mill
- and...if rates continue to increase
- multiple that problem...several fold - and to put it politely....as they said on the apollo 13 mission
- "Houston - we have a problem"
Well that's just my thoughts FWIW on a piddly ...nearly 1% .....on a little chart
Must revisit my "when the SHTF" plans.....soon :o)