ALERT: Peter Morici: As Federal Reserve meets, Americans should consider cutting spending
Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to indicate how quickly it will push up interest rates.
Ordinary Americans can expect
monthly payments on home purchases to rise, selling houses they already
own to get tougher, and interest rates to jump on credit cards and other
consumer loans.
Recent retail sales reports indicate the average family is spending freely and not saving very much.This may be a good time to trim back—families may need to borrow in an emergency and higher interest rates will take a bite out of the family budget.
This is a good time to rethink the family budget. If you have credit card debt, pay it down as quickly as you can.
The Fed has been purchasing $85 billion in mortgage-backed securities and longer term Treasury Bonds—economists call this “Quantitative Easing.”
These purchases have fueled, until recently, rock bottom mortgage rates and a much heralded surge in housing prices. The latter could well prove unsustainable, because Wall Street speculators have been doing a lot of the home buying, even as the demand for home ownership is the United States is actually waning.
More Americans are choosing to rent that’s because many young families, saddled with huge student debt and earning less than their parents, can’t consider purchasing a piece of suburb heaven.
The Zillow Survey of 105 economic forecasters, in which I participate, has the surge in housing prices slowing significantly in 2014 and 2015. This deceleration could turn into a housing market collapse if the Fed pulls back on easy money too quickly, and many more homeowners could owe more than their homes are worth.
Car sales and prices have been booming, as Ford, GM and others have offered customers with good credit scores quite reasonable rates on new car loans. Their financial affiliates will face much higher costs for funds, and automakers will have to pass along higher interest rates to customers and trim incentives.
If you genuinely need a new car, this may be the best time to get that good deal. Higher borrowing rates will hit the used car market hard, lowering your trade-in value—along with higher interest rates, that will push up the monthly payment on new vehicles.
Recent retail sales reports indicate the average family is spending freely and not saving very much.This may be a good time to trim back—families may need to borrow in an emergency and higher interest rates will take a bite out of the family budget.
This is a good time to rethink the family budget. If you have credit card debt, pay it down as quickly as you can.
The Fed has been purchasing $85 billion in mortgage-backed securities and longer term Treasury Bonds—economists call this “Quantitative Easing.”
These purchases have fueled, until recently, rock bottom mortgage rates and a much heralded surge in housing prices. The latter could well prove unsustainable, because Wall Street speculators have been doing a lot of the home buying, even as the demand for home ownership is the United States is actually waning.
More Americans are choosing to rent that’s because many young families, saddled with huge student debt and earning less than their parents, can’t consider purchasing a piece of suburb heaven.
The Zillow Survey of 105 economic forecasters, in which I participate, has the surge in housing prices slowing significantly in 2014 and 2015. This deceleration could turn into a housing market collapse if the Fed pulls back on easy money too quickly, and many more homeowners could owe more than their homes are worth.
Car sales and prices have been booming, as Ford, GM and others have offered customers with good credit scores quite reasonable rates on new car loans. Their financial affiliates will face much higher costs for funds, and automakers will have to pass along higher interest rates to customers and trim incentives.
If you genuinely need a new car, this may be the best time to get that good deal. Higher borrowing rates will hit the used car market hard, lowering your trade-in value—along with higher interest rates, that will push up the monthly payment on new vehicles.
So we have to cut spending but the government doesnt? wow, just wow!
For Some Areas, the Fed Taper Already Has BegunAs investors prepare for the Federal Reserve’s slow exit from its extraordinary easing measures, it is emerging markets that are taking perhaps the biggest hit.
Measured against total economic output, capital inflow to developing economies has hit its lowest point in five years.
Analysts attribute the cash flow to anticipation that the Fed liquidity that helped drive a global stock market rally is beginning to dry up. They see money now flowing out of parts of Asia and going into cash, or getting teed up for a Europe rebound.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100824685
ANALYST: Now That The Cheap Money Is Coming To An End, We Can See The Bubble To End All Bubbles
There’s a Warren Buffett quote that’s something akin to: When the tide goes out, you can see who’s been swimming naked.
That’s the theme of a note this morning from SocGen analyst Kit Juckes, who says that as rates are rising, and tapering talk picks up, it’s beginning to be clear where the unsustainable bubbles have been built up.
No surprise: He says the bubbles were found in emerging markets, which have been crumbling lately.
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That’s the theme of a note this morning from SocGen analyst Kit Juckes, who says that as rates are rising, and tapering talk picks up, it’s beginning to be clear where the unsustainable bubbles have been built up.
No surprise: He says the bubbles were found in emerging markets, which have been crumbling lately.
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Meanwhile, the burgeoning economic worries in Brazil have resulted in some extraordinary protests, the largest in 20 years, ostensibly due to an increase in bus fares.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/analyst-now-that-the-cheap-money-is-coming-to-an-end-we-can-see-where-the-bubbles-are-2013-6#ixzz2WaUamUTL
Roubini: Fed Faces ‘Treacherous’ Path in Exiting its QE
“Exiting too fast will crash the real economy, while exiting
too slowly will create a huge bubble and then crash the financial
system.”
http://www.moneynews.com/FinanceNews/Roubini-Fed-QE-Bremmer/2013/06/18/id/510516
http://www.moneynews.com/FinanceNews/Roubini-Fed-QE-Bremmer/2013/06/18/id/510516
U.S. Consumers Not Coming Back For Years – Stephen Roach
June 18 (Bloomberg) — Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University and former non-executive chairman for Morgan Stanley in Asia, talks about Federal Reserve policy, the U.S. economy and the Federal budget. Roach, speaking with Tom Keene, Sara Eisen and Scarlet Fu on Bloomberg Television’s “Surveillance,” also discusses China’s banking system and the global retail market. (Source: Bloomberg)
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