SlateStone Wealth’s Kenny Polcari and Key Advisors Wealth Administration CEO Eddie Ghabour analyze the state of the financial system and whether or not or to not purchase market dips.
I’m as nervous about runaway authorities spending and debt as anybody. However I’ve received to surprise if there probably could possibly be a extra incompetent and biased credit score rater than Moody’s — the company that simply downgraded federal bonds from AAA ranking.
For context, that is the company that gave the very best credit score scores to the subprime mortgage-backed securities proper of till the eve of the best monetary disaster for the reason that Nice Melancholy, wiping out trillions of {dollars} of investor wealth.
The Nationwide Bureau of Financial Analysis issued this convenient reminder of Moody’s complicity within the meltdown:
“The credit crisis of 2008-9 was in many ways a credit rating crisis. Structured finance products, such as mortgage-backed securities, accounted for over $11 trillion dollars of outstanding U.S. debt… More than half of the securities rated by Moody’s carried the highest possible credit rating that is typically reserved for securities deemed to be nearly riskless. In 2007 and 2008, the creditworthiness of structured finance securities deteriorated dramatically: 36,346 Moody’s rated tranches were downgraded, and nearly one third of the downgraded tranches bore the AAA rating.”
Mockingly, this got here after Moody’s agreed, in 2017, to pay a $864 million penalty for contributing to the disaster resulting from its flawed scores. When precisely?
MOODY’S DOWNGRADES US CREDIT RATING OVER RISING DEBT
After the subprime mortgage debacle. So I hav to ask, how may Moody’s stand in judgment of anybody’s credit score worthiness?
This is able to be like hiring Pee Wee Herman as your funding adviser.
The issue isn’t simply Moody’s less-than-stellar monitor document. Moody’s is overtly politically biased. The most important gap ever ripped into the finances was the $5 trillion President Joe Biden spending spree. With Bidenflation deflating the worth of current authorities bonds. However unusually, no credit score downgrade was issued whereas Biden was within the White Home.
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Now that Donald Trump is president and the sky is outwardly falling. The chief economist of Moody’s commonly trashes supply-side tax cuts, however believes authorities spending is a stimulus to the financial system.
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What Moody’s and different credit-rating businesses nonetheless can’t perceive is that tax cuts like Ronald Reagan’s in 1981 and Trump’s 2017 invoice develop the financial system and over time decrease the debt burden as a share of the nation’s wealth. Extra folks working and fewer folks on welfare is an effective way to decrease debt spending. If we are able to get the expansion fee as much as 3% — which President Trump is aiming for — the debt burden begins to shrink.
Keep in mind, the total religion and credit score of the U.S. authorities stands behind Treasury bonds. That’s fairly near an ironclad assure of compensation. Sure, now we have a spending downside in Washington for certain, however we aren’t Zimbabwe.
The timing of this downgrade is especially suspicious. Is it coincidence that it comes simply as Congress is voting on the Trump tax lower?
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In simply the previous two months, President Trump has secured not less than $1 trillion of latest funding capital commitments to come back to those shores. Why would this gold rush of funding flood right into a nation susceptible to default?
Possibly buyers know what Moody’s doesn’t. Trumponomics is sweet for the U.S. financial system — and for many who put money into America.
Stephen Moore is a co-founder of Unleash Prosperity and a former Trump senior financial advisor.
