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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

In four years

From
http://www.thetradingreport.com/2016/09/21/the-us-government-is-about-to-lose-its-1-lender/

The US Government is about to

 lose its #1 lender

This isn’t supposed to be happening.
The financial crisis is years behind us. The economy is supposedly on solid footing. The government keeps gushing about how much tax revenue they’re collecting.
Usually when government debt expands so rapidly it’s because they’re waging war, fighting a major recession, or financing some serious infrastructure projects.
But none of these things are happening.
Think about it– yesterday I told you that the debt is now $19.5 trillion. The debt hit $18.5 trillion in November of last year… meaning that they added $1 trillion to the national debt in just 10 months.
What did you get for that $1 trillion? Did they defeat ISIS? Give everyone a massive tax rebate? Recapitalize all of their insolvent trust funds?
Nope. Nada. They made a trillion dollars vanish into thin air and have absolutely nothing to show for it.
That’s because an absolutely astonishing level of spending (and waste) is built into the system now.
Just keeping the lights on, i.e. simply paying interest on the national debt, plus all the mandatory entitlement programs, burns through almost 100% of their tax revenue.
This means that they have to go into debt to finance nearly everything we think of as government, from fake airport security to the national parks to the Internal Revenue Service.
To be fair, this approach has worked well for years. The US government has had an ample supply of lenders willing to fund its largess.
But that pipeline of suckers will soon be running dry.
In fact, according to the Treasury Department’s most recent data, two of America’s biggest foreign lenders (China and Japan) are already cutting back on their $2.37 trillion of US debt.
Then there’s the Federal Reserve, another one of the government’s major lenders, which now owns $2.46 trillion of US debt.
This is up from just $479 billion right before the financial crisis blew up in 2008. So the Fed has expanded its Treasury holdings by 5-fold (not to mention its ownership of mortgage backed securities has exploded from $0 to $1.7 trillion over the same period…)
But one of the Fed’s major challenges is that they’re nearly insolvent, with a razor-thin capital ratio of just 0.8%.
Simply put, if the Fed continues to conjure trillions of dollars out of thin air to feed the government’s insatiable appetite for debt, they’re risking a major currency crisis at a minimum.
That leaves Social Security, far and away the single largest owner of US Treasuries.
It’s been a neat little scam for decades. Workers in the United States pay a portion of their paychecks to Medicare and Social Security, some of which ends up in the pockets of retirees each month.
The rest of that tax revenue (the “Social Security surplus”) is loaned to the federal government.
Over the years, Social Security has loaned the government trillions of dollars, stockpiling entire warehouses full of IOUs from the Treasury Department.
But here’s the thing– Social Security and Medicare are rapidly running out of money.
Each year in their annual reports, in fact, their respective boards of trustees describe the programs’ financial woes in excruciating detail. They don’t pull any punches.
The Trustees themselves explain that Social Security’s two biggest trust funds will start running terminal deficits in 2020 until they are fully depleted 14 years later.
This means that in just four more years, Social Security will no longer be able to loan any more money to the federal government. Uncle Sam is about to lose his biggest lender.
What’s more, the US government is going to have to come up with trillions of dollars more to pay back Social Security in the subsequent years.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg: the US government is also staring down the barrel of several trillion dollars worth of other enormous expenses that they’ll need to pay.
Major components of US infrastructure are in dire need of a facelift that is estimated to cost $1.4 trillion.
Then there are entire federal trust funds that are either insolvent or living on borrowed time–like the Highway Trust Fund that was nearly depleted last year…
… or the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund, which guarantees trillions of dollars worth of deposits in the US banking system, yet is undercapitalized and fails to meet its own insurance threshold.
Even more critical is the pension fund crisis across the United States, where private, state, and local pensions face a funding shortfall exceeding $7 trillion according to credit agency Moody’s.
Yet the federal government’s Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which is supposed to guarantee the pensions of 30 million American workers, is itself insolvent and in need of a government bailout.
There is no end to these liabilities that the US government has been pushing off for years.
So in addition to losing its biggest lenders, they’ll need to come up with trillions of dollars more to pay for these looming obligations.
Like it or not, this party starts in just four more years.

13 comments:

Wacky Punter said...

Greetings Sir,

Would be great if you post an explanation for the Astrological Chart posted above. Can understand what you are trying to explain. Thank You.

Unknown said...

Hello sir
Can you put some light into the 2020 chart.
The situation looks similar to the current (2016) chart with respect to the shadow planets.
Anything to take from this.
Thank you.
Warm regards.

Tekkiesuresh said...

Capricorn is a Cardinal Sign.It is a sign which initiates change. When generational planets like Pluto are placed there, irreversible generational changes are brought about.Now see who all are placed in Capricorn, a cardinal sign. Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter.All three are heavy planets. Especially the Pluto Saturn conjunction is a recipe to seek Judgement for all wrong doings of the past. Since they are slow moving they will be in this formation for several months.Incidentally, both in Vedic and Western Astrology, these three planets will be in the Cardinal sign.Rahu Ketu axis is to the 12th of these planets. Another significant pointer to change. Rahu is in the 6/8 angle, so the change will be painful for many.Uranus is in a square to these Cardinal Planets in Aries, another Cardinal sign.Mars is conjuncting Neptune which is akin to pricking those dream induced bubbles.
Now read the article above the chart. You can correlate better.

Unknown said...

Thank you sir now it's clear.

Wacky Punter said...

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation!

Kulbhushan Mangle said...

Tekkie Sir,

I think it is time to slowly accumulate physical gold???

Because, by above article, US dollor will certainly lose its reserve currency status. And looking at present scenario, there is no alternative for dollar... unless China comes with gold backed currency....

So golden days for gold ahead???

Thanks.

Tekkiesuresh said...

Hi Mangle,
See this post..
http://niftyastrotechnicals.blogspot.in/2016/08/dollar-index-usd-inr-gold.html
Gold can definitely be bought once it declines. Right now is not the time.

Manish said...

I dont we should be worried and analyse about what will happen 4 years later. Can you predict accurately what is going to happen in india market Nifty level in next 1 month. This can help both investor and trader.

Tekkiesuresh said...

Manish, what should be written in my blog post is purely upto me.Regarding what may happen to Nifty, in the next one month, may or may not covered in this space depending on my interest levels.If someone wishes to get regular analysis, they are welcome to join our subscription services.

vick said...

Tekkie Suresh,
Good Afternoon From USA
i was reading your article above and your explanations goes far beyond and looks like whole world is heading for another crisis like 2008 whether it will be serious and money draining is beyond my thoughts!!!! only you can explain furthure on that
i also remember your article about EURO and Euro currency and you had mentioned that Somewhere around August 2019 it will be destroyed and dissolved; and if i remember this correctly your writings are on the wall
will you please touch on above if your time permits
thanks as always,
vick

Niftybaba said...

Suresh,
I went to your arcticle where your are bullish on nifty till oct 1, as the bullsihness has not materialized till now will nifty coreect or will it trade into a trading range.

Tekkiesuresh said...

Hi Niftybaba,
I presume you are referring to the Dasa combinations post? That was just a correlation which I was exploring and had posted based on my observation.I was not bullish on Nifty till Oct 01. The question I had asked was," Will we see a bottom and then a big bounce between Sept 12 and Oct 01, 2016?" We had seen one bottom at 8688 on Sept 14 and another low so far at 8690.Maybe we could see a bounce upwards for a few days now. It was just a rhetorical question and I would be interested to see now Nifty would behave in the next few days!

Tekkiesuresh said...

Sure Vick. I shall update the Euro chart sometime next week.