FACETS OF BUBBLE

Doug Noland weekend commentary

>>"The massive expansion of GSE obligations, coupled with a speculative marketplace’s anticipation of yet another major government-induced reflation, severely distorted the marketplace and provided the bedrock for a historic mortgage finance Bubble. Today, the government’s intrusion into the marketplace is greater than ever. The markets readily accommodate a couple Trillion of annual issuance – as if the U.S. economy and Credit system were on solid footing. And I would argue that today’s mispricing of government finance reinforces the market’s perception that U.S. policymakers will successfully reflate the economy. This Bubble distortion, then, fosters a problematic explosion of government debt issuance – and a most dangerous case Minskian “Ponzi finance.” <<

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