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Federal Reserve ChallengeDecember 10 2008
Damian Gray
Ben Blieden
Scot Weisman
Adam Nichols
Robert Searle
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Monetary Policy Recommendations
Maintain Fed Funds Rate at 1%
Lower Cost of Capital
Purchase Long term Debt
Create Innovative Lending Facilities
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Source: BEA
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3rd Quarter GDP -.5%
• Personal consumption 3.7%• Government consumption 5.4%• Business Investment .4%• Exports 3.4%• Imports 3.2%
Source: BEA
GDP = C+I+G+(X-M)
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GDP forecasts
• Goldman Sachs predicts 4th quarter GDP will go down 5%
• Personal consumption will continue to decrease in 2009
• Barack Obama’s plans will boost government consumption in 2009
Source: CNN
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Loss of Jobs
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Nov. 8: 533,000
Total Year to Date:Nearly 2 Million
Source: BLS
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Unemployment Rising
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November 2008: 6.7%
Source: BLS
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Other employment problems
• Unemployment – lagging indicator• Increase in underemployment
– The number of workers who are working part time for economic reasons has increased by 2.8 million in the past year
• Increase in discouraged workers– In the past year discouraged workers have gone up
from 259,000 to 608,000
Source: BLS
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Unemployment Forecasts
• Unemployment will continue to rise throughout 2009 and by December it may reach 9-10%
• Obama is planning to create millions of jobs through extensive government spending
Source: CNN Money
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Inflation vs. Core Inflation
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InflationCore Inflation Source: BLS
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Deflation and Collateral
Deflation can lead to significant declines in the value of collateral owned by households and firms, making it more difficult to borrow
Falling collateral values on outstanding loans, reduces manufacturing and lowers consumption
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Inflation Targeting
Making the Fed's inflation goals more explicit could reduce uncertainty and assist business and financial market planning
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Housing Bubble• Irresponsible Lending/Borrowing
– Fannie and Freddie mortgages rose 600% during the 90s surpassing $5T
– Housing prices jumped 80% in 8 years
• Lack of regulation & oversight• Credit regulators not understanding how to rate
collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (MBSS)
Source: CNBC
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Inflated home Prices
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Rise in Mortgage Rates
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Source: Bloomberg
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Rising Energy Costs(CPI) Energy
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Fall in Home prices andNon-Farm Payrolls
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Rise in Foreclosures
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Failures
• Bear Stearns -> JPMorgan Chase• Lehman Brothers ($1.35B) -> Barclays• Wachovia ($15.1B) -> Wells Fargo• Washington Mutual -> JPMorgan Chase• Countrywide -> Bank of America• Merrill Lynch -> Bank of America
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Multiplier Effect
The decrease in the velocity of money has a multiplier effect because money being introduced by the Fed is not being multiplied
Instead creating a contraction - The slowing velocity leads to a negative multiplier effect
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Money Supply Increasing
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M1 Multiplier Decreasing
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Source: BLS
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Consumer Confidence Falls
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Source: Conference Board Consumer Resource Center
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Why Consumer Confidence is Falling
• Tight credit conditions• Job losses• Falling incomes• Uncertainty of the future
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Consumer Saving
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Falloff in Retail Sales
Jan-05Jan-03Jan-01Jan-99Jan-97Jan-95Jan-93Jan-91Jan-89Jan-87Jan-85290000
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Troubled Asset Relief Program
• Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program
– Recapitalize bank balance sheets
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National Debt
• Greater Than $11trillion, October 1st, 2008
• Over 73% of GDP
• Largest ever during WWII at 122%
Source: IOUSA
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Debt as a % of GDP
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Who Owns the Debt ?
• Government Accounts (Trust Funds)– Largest is Social Security – Medicare, Medicaid problems as population ages
• Publicly-held: $6.302 trillion– $2.74 trillion foreign-owned– Japan $585.9 billion & China $541 billion
• Congress has approved 6 increases of the debt limit since 2002, totaling $4.915 trillion– Most recently Oct. 3, 2008 - $700 billion
Concord Coalition
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Budget FY 2008• $2.5 trillion in revenue• $2.9 trillion in spending
Personal Income Tax41%
Payroll FICA31%
Corporate Income Tax12%
Other2%
Deficit14%
Source: IOUSA
$400 billion deficit in the FY 2008 budget
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Cost to Economy of Big Three Auto Makers Failure
239,341 Direct job losses973,969 Supplier job losses 1,738,034 Related industry jobs $150.7 billion Personal income$14.3 billion Increased transfer payments
(unemployment)$21.1 billion Social Security payroll taxes $24.7 billion Personal income taxes
Source: CNN Money
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Annual Auto Industry Jobs Loss
Source: BLS
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Unfunded Promises
Liabilities11
21%
Social Security7
13%
Medicare (A,B)26
49%
Medicare (D)8
15%
Misc1
2%
$53 trillion in promises
Chart shownin trillions Source: IOUSA
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Negative Effects
• With Rising Unemployment– Tax Revenue drops– Increasing the deficit– Decreasing our solvency
• Unfunded promises rising on top of debt
• Example set for over leveraging consumers
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Rising American Consumer Debt
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1977 Amendment to the Federal Reserve Act
1.to promote "maximum" sustainable output and employment
2.to promote "stable" prices
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Monetary Policy Focus
Encourage business investment and consumer spending by:
–lowering the cost of capital–increasing the availability of credit
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Declining Commercial and Industrial Loans
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Falling Gross Private Domestic Investment
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Effective Rate vs. Target Rate
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Quantitative Easing
• Current lending facilities– Term Auction Facility (TAF)– Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF)– Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF)– Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF)– Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility
(TALF)– Interest on Reserve Balances
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Expanding Reserve Bank Credit
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Interest on Reserves
• Nov 5th action to set remuneration rate equal to target enables better control of effective rate
• Encourages banks to hold reserve deposits at Fed - further expansion of consumer and business credit facilities
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The Rising Effective Fed Funds Rate Since November
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Growth of Reserve Balances at Federal Reserve Banks
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Term Asset-Backed Securities Facility (TALF)
• For growth to occur there must be consumer spending and business investment
• TALF aids credit markets for consumers and small businesses by incentivizing lending for banks
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FRBNY
Consumer and Small Business
Bank
Non-Recourse Loan
Loan$$$
Asset-Backed Security
ABS Collateral
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Small Business
• Employs more than half of private sector workers
• Generate half of new net jobs annually over past decade
• Account for more than1/2 of nonfarm GDP
• Small firms cannot offer innovative new products or services without competitive credit.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/mishkin20080416a.htm
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Long Term Debt
• Purchase long term Treasury and agency (Fannie, Freddie, etc.) debt to influence yields
Purchases on the open market:
• Drive down yields • Influence other long term interest
rates across the financial markets
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30 Year Bond Yields Falling
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10 Year Treasury Notes Falling
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National 20 & 30 yr Fixed Mortgage Rates Falling (bankrate.com)
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Fiscal Recommendations
• Complement Fiscal PolicyNew lending facilities
• Infrastructure Development• Green Technology
Increase Consumer Confidence• Create Jobs through incentives (green)• Housing opportunities and retention• Fed & Treasury work to make FDIC Insurance
permanent
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Obama’s Short Term Emergency Plan
• A thousand dollar ($1,000) emergency energy rebate
• Fifty billion dollars to jumpstart the economy and save 1 million Americans from losing their jobs
• $ 25 Billion Stake Growth Fund
• $ 25 Billion Jobs and Growth Fund
Source: Barackobama.com
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Obama’s Plan for Business• Create 5 million new jobs through Green, Clean Energy,
and Alternative Fuel Initiatives
– $150 billion over 10 years• Biofuels and fuel infrastructure• Commercial scale renewable energy
• Double Funding for Manufacturing Extension Partnerships
• Boost Renewable Energy Sector– 25% of American electricity from renewable resources by 2025
Source: www.barackobama.com
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Infrastructure Investment
• Create National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank
• Transportation Infrastructure Projects across USA
• Create up to 2,000,000 jobs
• Stimulate new business activity
Source: www.barackobama.com
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INFRASTRUCTURE Complement Fiscal Policy Initiatives
• Create New Lending Facilities SPECIFICALLY for Infrastructure Improvements
• Low Cost Financing will promote Business Opportunity and Expansion
• Jobs Created
GDP = C+I+G+(X-M):
G will lead to I, which will also promote C
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Historical Perspective – Lessons Learned
Prosperity of the 1990’s was due to:• Advance of the Internet – new opportunities• Moore’s Law – every 18 months technology was
predictably smaller, faster, cheaper to produce• New companies with new products • Ability to use, process INFORMATION
• New Technologies• New Companies• New Jobs• Higher Wages• Better , Cheaper Technology and Efficiency keeps Inflation in check
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Dependence on Oil –The Cost Push Problem
Cost Push Inflation – where resource or input prices cause finished goods prices to rise, would still be a problem (like OIL prices)
Recommendation
The Fed funds alternative technologies through new lending facilities to reduce our dependence on foreign oil
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Get Back to Innovating• Get back to Innovating, Producing new
Alternative Energy Products• Reduce our dependence on foreign oil• Lowering Imports, Export New Innovations• New Green Technologies will spur new
Opportunities
Creating New Lending Facilities SPECIFICALLY for New Technologies:
New Products, New Companies, New Jobs
GDP = C+I+G+(X-M):
I will lead to C, and will also help promote (X-M)
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M3 Growth in 90’s
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Private Asset Exchange Lending Program
• Provides needed liquidity to larger businesses, both financial and non-financial
• Provides profitable situation for Treasury and taxpayers that can assist in new fiscal policy expenditures
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TreasuryFederal Reserve
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Maintain Target Rate at 1%
• Concentrating on Long Term Rates strategy, with Fed Communication:
**Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke At the Annual Washington Policy Conference of the National Association of Business Economists, Washington, D.C. March 25, 2003
As with fiscal policy, public beliefs about how monetary policy will perform in the long run affect the effectiveness of monetary policy in the short run. **
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Avoid Liquidity Trap
• Avoid nominal rate dropping to 0%• Reserve this option for Q1 2009 in case
the economy does not respond to Fiscal initiatives
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Money Market Squeeze
Lowering FFR below 1% will squeeze Money Markets:
• Money Market Expense Ratios make it difficult to manage money funds for banks
• Losses in U.S. money market mutual funds will cause investors to stay away from short-term markets
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Fed Recommendations
• Maintain Fed Funds rate at 1% at this time• Continue “Quantitative Easing”• Continue paying Interest on Reserves• Maintain lending facilities• Purchase long-term debt• Create new “Private Asset Exchange Lending”
program
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Effects on GDP
These Recommendations should:• Increase Confidence between Banks (encouraging
lending)• Loosen tight consumer credit (encouraging
consumption)• Support Manufacturing (increasing employment) • Promote innovation (get us off oil, increase investment)• Increase Consumer Confidence (promoting spending)• Reverse the GDP downward Trend (C+I+G+(X-M))
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Questions