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Higher Rates, Higher Credit Growth: Sober Look

I wrote recently about money velocity and reminded readers that theory says higher interest rates tend to increase money velocity because it decreases the demand for real cash balances. This was around the discussion of whether the enormous demand for Verizon bonds could be anecdotal evidence that velocity is increasing.

Yesterday the blog Sober Look - which is one of my favorites because it gives intelligent looks at many different markets - ran an article entitled "Could rising rates fuel credit growth in the US?" in which they in turn cite Deutsche Bank research. It's a very quick article and worth a read, because it sheds some light on one of the mechanisms by which credit growth may increase with higher rates. Ordinarily, higher rates inhibit money growth at the same time that they increase velocity, partly because the yield curve flattens. But in this case, higher rates may increase both credit growth and money velocity - at least when rates initially rise - since the market is moving ahead of the Fed and steepening the yield curve in a selloff.

It's just another puzzle piece to rotate in your mind, to try and see how it all fits together!

 


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