Posted on 07/06/2013 10:08:28 AM PDT by whitedog57
The much ballyhooed jobs report on Friday (despite the fact that it was PART-TIME, not full-time jobs) raised the hopes of investors. US Treasury 10 year yields jumped 24.1 basis points on Friday on the news.
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For your consideration.
The US labor force participation rate (SA) rose slightly to 63.5%. Of course, that means that 36.5% are NOT participating. Here is M2 Money Velocity plotted against the labor force participation rate (yellow).
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The US Employment Population Ratio (SA) rose slightly to 58.7%. Once again, this means that 41.3% of the population are not employed. He is M1 Money Multiplier plotted against the employment to population ratio (red).
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Of course, excess reserves in The Fed system is over %1.9 trillion and are not leaking out into the economy, at least in the mortgage market.
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The rise in the Treasury rates has played havoc with mortgage-related investment vehicles. First, mortgage REITs have swooned with the increase in Treasury rates.
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And Agency Mortgage-backed Securities, like the Fannie Mae 3.5% MBS, have gotten crushed.
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Treasury rate increases are blistering certain investments such as Agency MBS and mortgage REITs. And the M1 Multiplier and M2 Velocity remain low by historic standards.
For your consideration.
/mark
MZ Velocity
M1 Multiplier
The Money is accumulating Here
And Here
Thanks for posting this HTML-challenged pimp’s stolen charts for him.
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Most of the above data is straight from the Federal Reserve
Even this mental midget can post a few URL linked graphics
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