Pento: “I
find it interesting that after years and years of being told that the Japanese
and the Chinese had no other alternative other than to continue to pile into our
Treasury market, the data just showed that they are net sellers of scores of
Treasuries in the last month.
That shows me that the Chinese and
the Japanese are very aware of what is now unfolding. They realize that the
threatened removal of an $85 billion per month bid in mortgage-backed and
Treasury bonds is not an incentive for them to continue buying. And they will
sell to protect their position.
That further exacerbates the
tremendous amount of record-setting pressure that exists on interest rates, and
downward pressure on bond prices. You have a Fed that has, for decades,
manipulated the price of bonds, and they raised that intervention exponentially
when the Great Recession started in 2008...."
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