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US Treasury Pays Down Over $484 Billion In Bills In April: Debt Roll Concerns Becomes Acute
Here is the primary risk of why frontloading the US Treasury with ultra-short holdings is just asking for a capital markets/liquidity/solvency/sovereign crisis. So far in April, the US Treasury has redeemed over $484 billion in Bills. That's nearly a half a trillion in mandatory cash outflows, interest payments aside. In April the cash out for interest expense will likely be one twentieth of this. What people don't realize is that the Treasury in April was down to just $9 billion in cash. Unless the UST can roll its debt not on a monthly but now weekly basis in greater and greater amounts, the interest rate doesn't matter. All it takes is one semi-failed auction and it's game over as hundreds of billions in bills become payable.
When one adds the redemptions on non-Bill Treasuries, and we get well over half a trillion in redemptions in April alone. This is better known as a house of cards, balancing on an upside down ladder, located in a puddle of extra slippery oil.
Roll issue aside, the UST issued a net $113 billion in debt in April, coupled with a gross cash burn of 27 billion for a net cash outflow in the month of $140 billion. Add the $120 billion or so in coupons in the last week of April (which likely won't settle until May), and the UST will have a $260 billion in cash burn in April.
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Uh, this stuff goes over my head for the most part, but, uh, things don't sound so honkey dory today
No worries. Alfred E. Galbraith says move right along:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=289004&cl=19331336&src=...
Someone tell that fear mongering, pessimism porn addict, gold shill Peter Schiff to shut his yapper!!
Look at our debt to GDP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing to worry about here.
Hahahaha.
Oh wait, i mean baaaah, baaah.. baaaaah bah..
Yeah, I just can't STAND that SOB Schiff ---- I mean, how DARE he expose the uncomfortable truth and demolish the feel-good propaganda of the hysterically pro-status-quo corporate media? Doesn't he realize how many Americans are all comfy snuggled up to their green shoots and mustard seeds, with the blanket of "recovery" pulled over their heads?
(Even if it IS a mighty thin blanket, and those green shoots are turning brown and starting to rot and stink.)
About as hunky dory as Bear Stearns relying on the repo market for its day-to-day funding.
Looks like the monthly average YTD is around $472B so what is the big deal with April? Admittedly, they/we have a huge funding problem which will one day blow up but this data point does not stand out as much as the post makes it seem. No?
With the ladder on a bananna peel.
Where's that banana Harry Wanger when we need him? Maybe he was cleaning out his shorts?
He's buying AAPL at $260 for 1x future earnings.
BUY BUY BUY!!!
I'm very comfortable having him on the other side of my AAPL trade.
He's at the coin shop with Bates...
Bates is now "Johnny Bravo", did you know?
You should have no trouble finding him, though --- just look for any article that touches on gold or financial collapse (the Achilles' heel of the pro-establishment troll), and his comments are sure to be found beneath. Like a shit-eating moth to a golden flame, they simply cannot resist being attracted to such discussions.
lol@ (the Achilles' heel of the pro-establishment troll)
The financial system of the world is a house of cards.
Got silver?
Looks like the US won't be able to roll over its mortgage like it's broker promised it would, and it's facing one hell of a balloon payment.
The only question left is, where does America mail the keys?
China?
Sounds about right... they are always looking for more scrap metal...
no worries, the banks will bail out the government with all their profits. LOL
...while there is 7.2 earthquake occurring...
...those are Bernenke's knees, you silly boy!
They are moving the last of the nations gold out of the Fed's vault?
yeah got silver but gold is shining more today poof..
give it time...silver will be the sheeples gold when they finally wake up.
Silver is this sheeple's gold, as silver is the PM I can afford. :-(
you're not a member of the sheeple...you're buying PMs now and are, at the very least, informed enough to be reading ZH...its going to be interesting to see the % gain differences among the PMs from here on out. although i love gold, i believe silver may have a run thats better than most anticipate.
me too
Silver BitcheS!
same here postal. baah baah.
Half a trillion, that shouldn'd be a problem for America. That's only 2000$ per person living in America!
COME ON PEOPLE!
Everybody chip in!
It's like payday loansharking... oops, I mean "lending." Take out one loan, find out you can't pay it back during the next pay period, so you roll it over. And keep rolling it over with fees and interest until it doesn't work any more.
Same financial strategy for the US government and the lowliest payday loan borrower.
Exactly. Our nation is sucked into the payday cash hustle. deep.
Easy out: Murder the loan holder.
Sure that means war, but whoever gets the first good punch in wins.
It was a gamble all along anyway.
No, no. See you just dont "get it". War is what gets you out of a recession, did you forget about the Great Depression and WW2? Its really just a big stimulus!! Keynesian style of course.
so ZH theory of sell equities to lower rates for debt roll beginning to play out folks ? or just a temp blip on way to bigger bubble ?
Nothing a little QE magic can't fix...
Don't worry. The us can still dip in military tsp plans.
A couple billion? That ain't gonna cut it...
Note to sociopaths: cash flow does matter
Then they'll just have make more of it to flow.
I don't know what everyone is so worried about. Obama Economic Recovery Team member and former Harvard brainiac Larry Summers himself said that debt doesn't matter since every debt has a corresponding asset therefore the more we print the richer we (or someone else) gets blah blah blah! He says soon we'll be so stinking rich even kids selling lemonade will be millionaires just like in Zimbabwe...
And a short term debt problem has got to better than a long term debt problem... right Larry... Larry?
it is a negative feedback loop. "making more of it to flow" will just cause a bigger problem. huge currency swings are outlet valves to all of this but sovereigns are at the limit because they don't have unlimited taxing power. Riots can shut any country down.
But can they bring down Skynet? We have yet to learn if John Connor can lead us to victory. Perhaps my leadership would be better suited to a new world order?
Agreed. We cannot take a chance on John Conners' unproven leadership...
I vote NO!
(Dr. No that is...)
'without conscience' and 'snakes in suits' . must reads.
Thank you.
You worry too much, Durden. I'm sure Barry, Turbo Tim and Benron have it all under control.
You can stop laughing anytime.
So, as long as European Crisis stays on the front pages, UST should be able to raise money. Can't wait for the opportunity to buy more Gold, unless that chance is over??
Options and futures contracts are expiring this week. If there isn't a buying opportunity Thursday or Friday morning, you may indeed have missed your chance (as that is when the manipulators are out in force). If they fail to force options contracts out of the money, then the manipulation may well be at an end, and you will just have to buy the grind as it works its way up to $2000 and beyond.
I woud hold off judgement on the manipulation being over until I see two or three months with options expirations that don't contain mysterious selloffs.
Didn't the Grand High Squid declare just a few days ago that U.S. debt wasn't a problem?
So this is the whole Greek story about - distraction.
I've been reading this stuff for years. Bond crash imminent. LMAO!!!
Take out "imminent", though, and it's still true.
Sounds like it's time to cut out the Dirty Fed middleman and just have the Treasury start printing its own.
You're gonna get disappeared talking like that.
I think he's already "Been there - done that!"
Something about payment for oil in Euros.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was buying oil for Euros?
Christ my eyes (or brain) must be going. That dude looked just like Saddam after a long night out!
... and here i thought it was rosie odonnell?
http://www.onejerusalem.com/wp-content/rosieksm.jpg
Funny!
Awful... +1
Nope.
Ron Jeremy.
oh my god.
Alfred E. Galbraith says What Me Worry. (Schiff vs. Galbraith on U.S. Debt)
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=289004&cl=19331336&src=...
Prolly the reason the markets will now correct. Can't have risk-loving cash chasing retail stocks now, can we? We have to bring those yields in so we can roll our debt.
I so agree with this observation of Fed strategy -- they have every incentive to sacrifice equities and drive demand for treasuries right now. But then what? Oh yeah -- collapse.
No problem. Just auction off $2 trillion in 10-yr next week, while Athens and Lisbon burn.
The printing press eliminates any concern about a failed auction...but it has its own challenges long-term.
Trees shortage, right? ;)
Paper jams, empty ink cartidge; anything can happen when the printer is asked to work 24/7 at full speed. Also, are we still using that damned ol' FIAT one Tricky Dick ushered in? I think we is.
Puff Daddy ft. The Lox, Lil' Kim & Notorious B.I.G.- It's All About The Benjamins:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrE6DP86hc
If there's one thing I've learned about printers, it's that they will run out of ink and/or paper during a high-pressure deadline, sooner or later.
Were this a normal person's balance sheet I were looking at, I would be very worried. But does it really matter since they can print all of the reserve currency they feel like? I'm sure there will be some pretense of legitimacy made so that it doesn't look like uncle Ben is raiding a billion Monopoly sets for cash, but that's what's going to happen. I think the politicos feel it is far too risky to cut anyone's pension or tell debt holders that they are irrevocably screwed. They will do everything in their power to wrench a fart from this corpse of an economy in order to prove their re-electabililty and keep the funny-money heroin flowing a little while longer.
Why, what harm could ever come from just printing monopoly money to pay all your bills?
If I were a major creditor or supplier I certainly wouldn't have a problem with that. Nosirree.
By the way, I think it's blasphemy to have a Star Wars username while using a Futurama avatar.
So which is it, punk? The Star Wars Trek, or the Star Trek Wars?
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=166869&title=sta...
All the liquidity in the world can only go so far when virtually every country is insolvent.
Jeeze Ty I don't get why you don't see this as good news, clearly tax receipts are up, thereby filling the funding gap...I mean, you know, right?
Oh for Pete's sake ... BB said he was not monetizing debt, but he is laying the groundwork for it. I'd say he can buy us another year by having the fed print dollars (yes, MORE dollars) and just buy treasuries outright. No more indirect, direct bidder crap ... just write a check. It won't bounce. What's the price on a CDS on US debt right now?
Agreed. There are many more steps to this waltz.
How many more minor countries can the Fed sacrifice in order to sell more US paper?
Answer? Plenty more.
Absolutely.
The uneasy cash flow reality of the US Government. For me, it has become one of constant vigil. When they go cash flow negative. My small USD holdings quickly exit.
The battle is lost. It is just how the Treasury will raise the white flag.
There has been considerable debate on how this will play out. The realization is that there must be an anticipitory type of inflow mechanism in place so as to not panic the markets and accomodate the slow clearing process of Government transactions.
Meaning, the FED must always provide some QE slack, through whatever pipeline, as to the Treasury monthly outflows required per anticipated receipts. The logical avenue at this time is providing resources to buy the Treasuries in enough quantitiy to offset spending.
ZH has talked at length on how this is being pushed through indirect buys. However, this debt hole has to be fed in continually greater amounts.
What they are doing is a play for time. At some point the FED will have to bring QE back into the open as a policy and this is where it gets fun.
Because at that point the FED is essentially meaningless in its plausibility of purpose.
When it is the policy of the US to fund Government through QE, we do not need a central bank. The fiat money system will be shown for what it is. Control of credit is hollow when the currency is made worthless. Ben can go home. He will not be needed.
This is why there can be no failed auctions as presented in the public domain. The Treasury needs every cent available of declining sovereign debt investment.
It is clear to me that if you where to audit the FED, you would find questionable dealings in porting money to Treasury buys without publically admitting what you are doing. They cannot spook the market, until they are forced to.
Mark Beck
Obviously Greece/Portugal are burning to squeeze folks back into Treasuries. $118b in issuance this week just needed a little extra bid-to-cover.
Nothing to see here, move along...
(This was supposed to be a reply to RonnieHonduras's comment)
Same vid but you don't have to suffer throught the Ally commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZrWoZiB9HY
Pay close attention to how Burnett frames the issue in the beginning.
Total Schiff pwnage of this dipshit.
Let me guess, Galbraith is one of the "economists" on retainer to the Federal Reserve. Nice job of mixing (confusing) ST rates with LT debt markets. "No, don't watch that hand; watch this hand." To suggest that the "market" is setting the current fantasy rates is nonsensical, and to expect that the ability to roll over (LT) into the artificially low rates indefinitely is idiotic. There will be no failed auctions, but monetization and market really are mutually exclusive concepts.
They had better hope to Lloyd Blankfein that short term yields collapse.
Sounds like some one is doing the same thing consumers tried before the house crash with using ARMS instead of 30 year fixed mortages to me.
I can't wait to see what happens when the Chinese announce they are no longer participating in the auctions.
Out in the open.
With fanfare.
As they short the crap out of U.S. Markets and then announce they have bought the remaning IMF gold.
They will mop up and we'll be left with nothing but a sore ass.
Probably not until after our military is fully committed in Iran and wherever else.
...the chinese don't need the imf gold, they are/have been the number one producer of gold. given their complete (lack of) government transparency, do you think anyone outside of their treasury's vault has the slightest idea that they are actually hoarding 99% of their domestic production?
they know and understand real money, and they will sacrifice frn$2t in a heart beat since the appreciation of their hard commodities will more than make that up at the same time the frn$ falls...
A turkey is fed for a thousand days and then...
+1. I really kinda wish more of the turkeys out there would read Taleb.
What are all those chickens doing coming down Wall St.? Oh I guess there finally coming home to roost!:))
The Treasurie is done.
Get REAL coin.
Run for the lifeboats there's only enough for the upper deck.
Fine work Tyler,
Lots of huffing and puffing today, but some of us keep looking for the weak links in the Ponzi. Of course, they can do it, but how can they hide it??? The game's afoot. Hail and well met. I learn things everyday here, and I know no higher compliment. May all the gods bless.
LOL...this is nothing at all different from last month.
The scalar amounts we're talking about seem to stun people, just further illustrating the fundamental lack of understanding of exponential math.
You SHOULD NOT be surprised by these amounts. In another few years, they will be double this. Simple compounding math.
I agree. This is exactly why I bought a Porsche 911 in November. In 24 months I will be laughing about how little I paid.
Mercedes S550 here. May get another one next week.
but of the bonds are due payment and they dont roll em. isnt that $450 bill extra debt they can take on? sure you roll the bonds, u dont have to pay, the buyer of the new bonds pay. i can see why rolling em is preferable.