{"id":198726,"date":"2007-10-15T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/15\/deficit-balloons-treasury-sales-may-soar-upping-interest-rates\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T02:20:00","slug":"deficit-balloons-treasury-sales-may-soar-upping-interest-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/15\/deficit-balloons-treasury-sales-may-soar-upping-interest-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Deficit Balloons, Treasury Sales May Soar, Upping Interest Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deficit is ballooning, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=arpmHEUoY9Ko&amp;refer=home#\">as a result, sales of Treasuries may increase by 50%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of shock to an already precarious bond market could send interest rates skyrocketing, as public and private compete in the market for capital.<\/p>\n<p>If correct, and I am not an economist, we could see s significatn (more than 1%) increase in interest rates in the next 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>Bushonomics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deficit is ballooning, and as a result, sales of Treasuries may increase by 50%. This kind of shock to an already precarious bond market could send interest rates skyrocketing, as public and private compete in the market for capital. If correct, and I am not an economist, we could see s significatn (more than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,1038,973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-budget","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}