{"id":47149,"date":"2009-11-23T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/treasury-faces-its-own-liquidity-crunch-next-year-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-23T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T13:27:00","slug":"how-to-understand-the-treasurys-upcoming-liquidity-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47149","title":{"rendered":"How To Understand The Treasury&#8217;s Upcoming Liquidity Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-government-is-living-on-teaser-rates-2009-11\">Earlier we mentioned<\/a> the NYT&#8217;s warning over the deficit, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/23\/business\/23rates.html?hp\">back-breaking balloon payments<\/a> we face when we have to refinance the debt.<\/p>\n<p>This graphic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/23\/business\/23rates.html?hp\">from the article<\/a>, nicely shows that 36% of U.S. government debt is due within on year. While the Fed is helping with ultra-low interest rates, thus allowing the U.S. government to roll over maturing debt at lower rates, this won&#8217;t last forever.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b0a876400000000000ed267&amp;maxX=500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"crunch\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The implication is that once U.S. interest rates eventually move higher, a large chunk of debt will suddenly have substantially higher interest costs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/23\/business\/23rates.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">Read the detailed article at the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/treasury-faces-its-own-liquidity-crunch-next-year-2009-11#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-treasury-nominee-has-a-tax-issues-2009-11\">Yet Another Obama Treasury Nominee Has Tax Evasion Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/treasury-department-looking-to-extend-tarp-into-2010-2009-11\">Treasury Department Looking To Extend TARP Into 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/my-sit-down-meeting-with-treasury-part-iii-2009-11\">My Sit-Down Meeting With Treasury Part II<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier we mentioned the NYT&#8217;s warning over the deficit, and the back-breaking balloon payments we face when we have to refinance the debt. This graphic from the article, nicely shows that 36% of U.S. government debt is due within on year. While the Fed is helping with ultra-low interest rates, thus allowing the U.S. government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}