136.1 USA Debt Ceiling Reprieve Saves Chinese, and World?

———Ep 136.1 Summary———
The ‘debate’ in the US Congress about the debt ‘ceiling’ prevented the US Treasury Dept. from issuing UST Bills, the ultimate risk-free asset. This put serious stress on the Chinese currency. Now, with the ‘debate’ tabled till December, Beijing (and the world) are safe… for now.


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———Ep 136.1 Topics———

00:00 Intro: China’s yuan was suspiciously stable, recently it has begun to gain – what changed?
00:43 Beijing likely was holding the yuan stable against depreciation pressures.
01:48 The PBOC may have used “contingent liabilities” (off-balance sheet) to hold the CNY up.
04:09 The CNY went up on October 13 and 19 when the US Treasury ‘reloaded’ US Treasury Bills.
06:20 Money dealers may have more UST Bills to work with, but do they want to (risk/return)?
09:14 A review of UST holdings by China (and Belgium) as of August 2021.
13:09 Money-credit-collateral availability is positively correlated to economic activity.
13:47 How did official institutions (not just China) behave in 2021 with respect to UST?
16:44 Similar behavior (selling US dollar assets) was observed in private market participants.
18:53 OUTRO: The Spring and Summer 2021 were bad, but might the future be better?

———Ep 136.1 References———

While The Fed Chases The Unemployment Rate, TIC’s Eurodollar Deflation Case Is Unusually Unambiguous: https://bit.ly/3G8Rgkr
Alhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWlin
RealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7

———Who———

Jeff Snider, head of global investment research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, Trevor Something listener. Art by David Parkins, coloured-pencil pamphleteer. Show produced by Terence, focused visuals. Podcast intro/outro is “Aurora Borealis” by Chill Cole found at Epidemic Sound.