More Anectdotal Evidence That The Fed Printing Will Not End With QE2

Again, I get back to my thesis that the Treausury will not be able to fund the inexorable spending appetite of the Obama Administration (the $38 billion in cuts is a complete joke and all it does is ever-so-slightly reduce the growth trajectory of the spending).

I've been waiting for someone to step up to the plate and show me the mathematices on how the Treasury will fund its spending needs if the Fed stops printing more money after June 30.  Jim Rickards is all over the blogosphere like famine in Africa explaining that the Fed can fund Treasury auctions without increasing its balance sheet.  I would like him to show me the math on that.  HERE is the math on my view, as clearly and articularly elucidated by zerohedge: 

So putting it all together: assuming no QE3, and just continued rolling and transforming MBS in UST purchases, means that the Fed will have about $12 billion in average UST purchases per month from maturity extension, and about $20 billion from MBS prepays. This is at best one quarter of the amount the Fed monetizes per month currently and is largely inadequate to continue funding the US deficit.

Here's the link to the article with links to the reference sites so you can check their math if you so desire:  TO QE3 or NOT TO QE3

So if the Fed does not step up to the plate and print more money to fund Obama's Government, then who will?  The Japanese?  LOL.  I think they have their hands full right now and probably need any excess liquidity to fund their own current problems.  Capisci?  How about the Chinese?  Read this article which had almost no real media exposure:

A former adviser to China's central bank said on Monday that China should have retreated from the U.S. government-bond market and instead allowed the yuan to appreciate more freely, warning that U.S. sovereign debt was akin to a giant Ponzi scheme

Here's the link for that news item, which actually came out yesterday:  LINK  I think it's safe to say that the Chinese probably won't increase their Treasury holdings, have been systematically hedging them out with gold and silver and the real risk is that they start dumping them, like Pimpco's Bill Gross.  Oh ya, the world's largest bond investment fund is not a likely candidate to fund Obama since he's now net short the Treasury market.

And if you still want to suspend your disbelief and buy into the garbage coming from many Fed officials plus Rickards, please take the time to read this extraordinarily well-written analysis from Alisdair Macloed:

One of the stark alternatives is to end quantitative easing and permit far higher interest rates, plunging the Obama administration into bankruptcy and the US economy into deep economic cleansing. The other is more ZIRP plus QE3 resulting in accelerating stagflation, made worse by a rapidly depreciating dollar.  LINK

He argues that the Fed will pay lip service to being inflation-vigilant by delivering a gratuitous 1/4 point hike in the Fed funds rate, but will be forced to continue printing money or else Obama's spending dreams die and the Govt goes insolvent.  I have made that same argument, in terms of the Fed justifying more printing by patronizing the M2 critics with a tiny, useless hike in interest rates.

So there you have it.  I suggest everyone ignore the flatulence coming from NYC and DC and start looking at their own finances and move some assets into gold and silver.  Silver supplies are starting to dry up and the mining supply is not coming close to covering the demand globally.  And if you really want to be irritated, check out the nice gift that Geithner, Hank Paulson (and de facto Bush and Obama) gave to their good friends on Wall Street using your money:  The Real Housewives Of Wall Street