The US Treasury Bond market is the longest unbroken bull market known to the financial world. For more than 30 years it has trended higher in nominal US dollar terms.
Of course, it has been helped greatly by price fixed and market fixed, Ben Bernanke, who has now bought up more Treasuries, by far, than any other identifiable group, but didn't pay for them out of production; he just did it with the pressing of a button, using a pretty fat finger!
At the current rate, with the Federal Reserve buying up every penny of newly issued government debt in 2013, and then some, it won't be too much longer before the Federal Reserve owns more than China, Japan, the oil exporters and Caribbean bank centers combined.
Considering it is a group of private central bankers that can print money to buy as much of anything they want it should really have people raising some eyebrows! But, aside from the fraud involved, let's take a look at how the issuance of debt is following the exact path of a bubble.
Stages of a Bubble
First, there is the money printing. This is the distinguishing feature of a bubble, its ultimate cause; and there is no more direct form of this model than the central bank printing money to buy the government's debt right out of the gate.
Jean-Paul Rodrigue is a Canadian most noted (in 2008) for his "bubble model", charting four "phases of a bubble". According to the model, while the "smart money" has purchased during the earlier "stealth phase", institutional investors begin to buy during "take off". Following media coverage, the general public begins to invest leading to steep rise in prices as "enthusiasm" and then "greed" kick in. "Delusion" precedes the peak.
Here is the progression, according to Rodrigue:
On a tip from good friend, Jeremy Martin, of the well-known Cambridge House conferences that we regularly attend, we decided to take a look at the entire US debt as plotted by the Heritage Foundation:
We then plotted Rodrigue's "bubble model" over top of the US debt data:
It's not perfect but it fits the model almost exactly. Where do you think Treasury bonds will head from here? TDV's Senior Analyst, Ed Bugos, is eyeing the Treasury Bonds for what could perhaps be the short of the century. He hasn't told subscribers to pile in yet, but I can tell from his twitchy finger over the "short" button on his online brokerage account that he is getting very close.
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