Clusterstock’s CHART OF THE DAY: Besides The Fed, Nobody Is Buying Agency Debt
Courtesy of Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova of Clusterstock
Where would we be without the Fed and its printing press? There’s been a lot of debate about the appetite of foreign investors of our debt — Treasury auctions continue to be strong, even as noises emanate from overseas about wanting to dump the dollar.
But here’s a stark fact, via the Council on Foreign Relations: Only the Fed is buying agency debt. Foreign buyers, who once consumed it voraciously, have been net sellers so far this year.