David Stockman, the so-called “Father of Reaganomics,” told Fox Business’s Neil Cavuto that investors ought to get out of the market and retreat to the safety of Treasury bills and hard cash.
“We’re in year 10 of the longest business expansion in history. We’re increasing the deficit at the very wrong time. They say it’s $900 billion this year it’ll be $1.2 trillion of borrowing at the same time that the Fed is beginning to shrink its balance sheet, which means they’ll be dumping bonds into the market,” Stockman said.
Exchange between Cavuto and Stockman:
Cavuto: When is that day of reckoning? I’d like to know
Stockman: I think we’re here. I think we’re here because the Fed stopped buying bonds two years ago.
Cavuto: What would you invest in?
Stockman: I think you get out of the market. The bond market, the stock market, put your money in cash, put your money in Treasury bills, wait for the collapse to come because it’s going to happen. My point is, it’s finally catching up with us. We’ve gotten by with this for 30 years ‘cause the Fed has been monetizing the debt — buying bonds hand over fist. When Greenspan arrived, the balance sheet of the Fed was $200 billion; at the peak it was $4.5 trillion.
