US Treasury Becomes Activist Debt Issuer to Juice the Economy
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Show Notes
The US Treasury’s focus on issuing short-term bills to limit price discovery at the back end of the yield curve is keeping interest rates down on longer maturity instruments. This practice is supporting risk assets and stimulating the economy, but it’s also costly with short duration securities currently having higher financing costs then longer duration bonds. In this podcast, IBKR Senior Economist Jose Torres and IBKR Chief Market Strategist Steve Sosnick interview Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Miran to explore the downside of the Treasury as an activist issuer.