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Inflationary: Biden to unveil trillions in pandemic economic relief spending next week

Jan 9, 2021 | Global Macro, Inflation, USA

This announcement will be key for the US Treasuries and the USD.

i address this point in my Outlook as inflationary.

Biden wants to directly serve the cash to households. This action could ignite a sharp bounce of M2 velocity (which crashed last year…). The nominal M2 amount is gigantic and if it’s velocity is ramping up with even more liquidity = the inflation will skyrocket …

 

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