Massive U.S. Debts Could ‘Trap’ Powell as Fed Fights Inflation

Bloomberg2021-12-13

Aggressive Fed hikes may risk market volatility, credit crunch Debt overhang could also limit how high fed can raise rates The U.S. went on a borrowing binge last year and the hangover could make it ...

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Oldie
2021-12-13
Oldie
Stuck between a hard rock and a hard stone
- ckww:
  Yeah
2020TS
2021-12-13
2020TS
Very confusing games by FED.

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More debt held by more companies suggests potential risks as borrowing costs rise from currently low levels.\nThat could create financial stability concerns for Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues as they debate removing pandemic support in the face of what a report Friday showed were the hottest price rises in almost 40 years. And a tough task: Not since Alan Greenspan’s time has the U.S. central bank tried to navigate the economy back to price stability from too-high inflation.\nPowell’s challenge is to try to curb price pressures without large costs to employment or growth, a move that would likely anger both political parties and blotch his record with the first Fed-assisted hard landing since the 1990-1991 downturn.\n“They are in a difficult position,” said Jeremy Stein, professor of economics at Harvard University and a Fed governor from 2012 to 2014. 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Minutes of their November meeting show that a number of them raised it during their deliberations, as they decided to start scaling back bond buying.\nPowell said last week that officials would consider accelerating their reduction of asset purchases when they meet Dec. 14-15 to end the program a few months earlier than mid-2022, as initially planned.\nWrapping the taper up sooner gives the Fed scope to raise rates earlier and faster if inflation fails to ease next year as expected. But record levels of debt may force them to temper their actions.\nMore Slowly\n“They may move a little bit more slowly to see how things develop, and whether problems do come up in the U.S. -- at least in the non-financial corporate business sector,” said William English, professor at Yale School of Management and a former senior Fed economist. “That will be just another source of uncertainty for monetary policy.”\nThe Fed’s emergency response to the pandemic included unprecedented support for the corporate sector. And while the intervention wasn’t massive compared to some of the Fed’s pandemic programs, the backstop fueled a record borrowing surge at historically low rates.\nThe combination has pushed investment-grade bond duration, the so-called sensitivity to interest rates, to near-records and boosted five-year refinancing requirements to all-time highs of around $2.5 trillion, according to Moody’s Investors Service.\nIf higher rates and wider corporate borrowing spreads throttle access to credit, it could push more firms into bankruptcy.\n“There are negative aspects when you encourage people to borrow, but then later feel that you can’t raise rates because so many people borrowed,” said Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Group. “That’s something of a trap.”\nTo be sure, big firms that used the opportunity to issue longer-dated bonds at lower rates have strengthened their balance sheets.\n\nHigher corporate profits would also ease the strain, though these could come under pressure if the economy slows in response to tighter monetary policy.\nBut while many firms took advantage of the low rates, it wasn’t universal. Nearly 500 companies are expected to try to tap markets to refinance next year, according to S&P Global Ratings. Medium and small-sized firms whose loans don’t tend to be rated would struggle even more, according to Fitch Ratings.\nGovernment and household debt also surged during the pandemic. While those segments look relatively healthy, rising borrowing costs could make servicing the federal debt more politically fraught and pressure lower-income Americans.\nSome see the higher debt burden limiting how far the Fed will be able to raise rates.\n“Financial conditions are relatively sensitive to what the Fed does. 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