How the Bottom Up Bailout Will Impact the Future

The lockdown of the economy by government order is proving to be a blunder of epic proportions.  Coronavirus is still on the loose.  Yet, as a result of the lockdown, the economy’s been destroyed.

Take the housing market, for instance.  According to a report from Black Knight, 4.3 million U.S. borrowers were more than 30 days late on a mortgage payment in May.  What’s more, over 8 percent of all U.S. mortgages were either past due or in foreclosure.

The succession is real simple.  First, the economy was shut down by government order.  Second, about 47 million people filed for unemployment claims over a 14-week period.  Third, people stopped paying their mortgage.

Here in the ‘land of fruits and nuts’ the trend is also moving in the wrong direction.  In May, 6.85 percent of California mortgages were estimated to be “non-current.”  This troubled-loan category is composed of mortgages with missed payments plus those formally in the foreclosure process.

When the year started, only 2.1 percent of California mortgages were non-current.  Thus, in just six months, the rate of non-current mortgages has jumped 228 percent.  Nationally, 7.76 percent of mortgages are non-current.

The housing market’s difficulties typify the consequences of an overleveraged economy.  With vast numbers of people up to their eyeballs in debt, all it took was a brief pause in cash flows and the debt structure broke down.  To add insult, this is a government sponsored problem…

What Comes Next?

Through the wheelings and dealings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government sponsored enterprises, lenders have an endless demand for mortgages.  Fannie and Freddie buy up the mortgages from lenders and either hold them in their portfolios or package them up into mortgage-backed securities (MBS).

If you recall, Fannie and Freddie were given a several hundred billion dollar bailout during the 2008-09 financial crisis.  Now, just over a decade later, the fermentations of another bailout are brewing.  The CARES Act was merely the warm up.

As noted above, mortgage payment fundamentals have rapidly turned negative.  Over the next several months the progression will advance from late and missed payments to mortgage defaults and foreclosures.

Without question, there will be another monster bailout.  But this bailout is bigger than just Fannie and Freddie or even the big banks.  This bailout is about a futile attempt to paper over American homelessness and poverty.  But what comes next?

Almost no one has considered the consequences of another monster bailout.  Will it be inflationary?  What will it do to the economy?  What will it do to the stock market?  How will it influence the price of gold or the yield on the 10-Year Treasury note?

These questions are not met with obvious answers.  We’ve been contemplating them for years without coming to any satisfying conclusions.  The best we can do is draw from the past, consider what’s different about the present, and make interpolations and guesses about impacts to the future.

Using this methodology, we offer the following ruminations…

How the Bottom Up Bailout Will Impact the Future

The 2008-09 mortgage bailout marked the start of a major bull market in U.S. stocks.  This was partly because the Fed pushed the federal funds rate to zero and swapped cash for the trash toxic assets of securitized mortgage debt.  This flooded the financial system with liquidity.

The future is now approaching.  But what will the future bring?  Namely, what type of bailout will the Fed, in concert with the Treasury, deliver?  Will it be another top down bailout similar to 2008-09?  Or will it be something entirely different?

We contend that it will be something dramatically different.  This time around it’s no longer politically expedient for only the government sponsored enterprises and the big banks to get a bailout.  The people are on to the Fed’s money games and demand a bailout too.

By this, the bailout will be from the bottom up.  The Treasury will provide cash stimulus check payments – or directly credit bank accounts – to renters and homeowners so they can share in the spoils of a bailout.

Fannie and Freddie already have CARES Act programs to help those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic…including a moratorium on foreclosure and eviction until at least August 21, 2020.  What you may not know is that this moratorium date has already been extended twice.  Perhaps it’ll continue to be extended until ample government stimulus checks are beings sent out to the American populace on a monthly basis.

Our guess is that this sort of bottom up bailout will be less bullish for stocks.  Though it will have a much more dramatic effect on consumer price inflation.  In other words, the dollar will lose purchasing power against real goods and services.  And eventually it’ll buckle, along with American living standards.

Moreover, the fantasyland world where the government pays everyone’s rent and mortgage, along with free school, free drugs, and free food, will be less sublime than what’s advertised.  Countless governments have tried throughout the ages.  Without fail, these pursuits of miracles and purple fairy dust solutions always end in tears.

Sincerely,

MN Gordon
for Economic Prism

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  15. john says:

    Really. You want me to believe that the covid BS is responsible for the financial mess we are in. No, my enemy, the covid BS is cover for another episode of looting of the US by our zionist overlords and their financial blood suckers.

    The zionist press wants me to watch the “looting” of America by financially and culturally hammered humans as the problem and not notice the 4.5 trillion of looting by the zionist pigs…the real problem.

    Bring the vampire zionist to the light of day and show them for who they are…blood suckers of the worst sort! They cannot survive the light of day and they and YOU know it.

    • Hans says:

      Dear John: Could tell us how many of the shut-down Governators are Zionist?

      Pontius Pilate, is so gleeful that his ignorance of a two millennium continues to reign. It’s so tidy and convenient to fault a small minority for the world’s problems. You simply defile the truth with pathological lies, repeated for eons,
      with only bias and inflammatory rhetoric and little or no facts.

      I would axe you for some “light of day” solutions but I am afraid it would be more of the same SS actions. Those whom have failed, generally lay the blame upon others, rather than accept responsibility.

    • Georg R says:

      True,but tthey had a lot of gentile help

      • Hans says:

        Mr R, a most salient point, indeed. I wonder if Dear John would understand and recognized that fact?? Gen[tile] means anyone other than Jews: Nihilist and Christians would populate that group.

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