Much easier to understand by the monetarist morons figuratively as “they’re printin’ money!”…
U.S. government securities clearing & settlement visualized pic.twitter.com/ngYUXHWpBu
— Conks (@concodanomics) May 7, 2024
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Much easier to understand by the monetarist morons figuratively as “they’re printin’ money!”…
U.S. government securities clearing & settlement visualized pic.twitter.com/ngYUXHWpBu
— Conks (@concodanomics) May 7, 2024
Footsoldier posted this in the comments. I am promoting it to a post.
So-called de-dollarization is envisioned to happen in two major steps stages each with many incremental iterations.
The first stage stage is conducting bilateral trade in the currencies of the trading partners. This is already well advanced.
However, this is not actual de-dollarization, which is the establishment of a competing monetary system with a goal of eventually replacing the USD as the primary global currency.
No one thinks that this will happen quickly and without growing pains, or without Western opposition. But it is a stated goal rather than simply an aspiration.
The Unit plan is now on the table.
Sputnik GlobeRecently, the neglected question of why the US government borrows, given that it can print money, has arisen in the context of discussions surrounding a new documentary, Finding the Money. As L. Randall Wray observes in this one-pager, Modern Money Theory has been providing answers to this question for some time; and, he argues, it is a topic that mainstream economists are ill-equipped to address, since very few concern themselves with the monetary operations that underlie the question of why a currency-issuing government issues debt.
New documentary that explains how money works and how pretty much everyone today gets it all backwards.
No not so fast there buddy. .. According to MMT the US government is “borrowing money!” from the tax exempt foreign divisions of these multinationals…
It’s not just transferring retained earnings into foreign UST accounts at the Fed as part of a scheme to reduce overall corporate tax liabilities… that’s not what is happening..
I wonder how many people know these “buybacks” are mostly unpaid taxes distributed to investors in US 🤔
— JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) May 3, 2024
In the case of $AAPL profits are kept offshore in 0% tax countries like Ireland, then $AAPL issues bonds in #US to finance these buybacks and when the bonds mature they use… https://t.co/HKwjqY8PYx
Have to see if this large month end settlement pattern continues…. It may be that first of the month fiscal transfers are getting so large these days that they are destabilizing reserve assets at Depositories… so Treasury might be scheduling most of the settlements the day before to reduce reserve balances within the same regulatory period as the first of the month…
Treasury issuance is not “borrowing!” despite what MMT asserts…
Treasury issuance is skewed this month. There are net paydowns and one large settlement on month-end. If we exclude month-end, there's a net paydown of $108B. O/N rates should head lower throughout the month. Every net paydown will put additional downward pressure on O/N rates pic.twitter.com/3fTwWGMwmR
— Scott Skyrm (@ScottSkyrm) May 2, 2024
You know that scene in The Big Short, when after the collapse there's a distinct vibe of "man that was so obvious, how were people so impossibly stupid?"
— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) May 3, 2024
If you are loaning money to the Federal Government (ie if you own government bonds), the *only* reason you should feel… https://t.co/KgutE7xeIv