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We're about to experience a sovereign debt crisis caused by the Europe energy crisis.
And What could happen in the next 6-8 months?
Putin strongarms Europe by shutting off Energy pipelines, causing a spike in prices.
This causes energy prices to skyrocket in Europe which is a major component of CPI - This causes inflation to explode higher
As CPI explodes higher, electricity prices get passed onto consumers.
Eventually, at the risk of civil unrest, Euro government may have two options:
- Give into Putin and let him have Ukraine and stop the sanctions to get energy flowing again
- Decide to deploy price caps on energy for consumers and print the difference.
To achieve this I believe ECB needs to instill yield curve control to keep sovereign bond yields in tact and avoid fragmentation of EU sovereign bonds.
The game theory I've ascribed to this makes me think that the West is too far deep into this mess to give into Putin and would rather print the difference.
And already Germany and the people are ready to fight with Russia for long time, they are mentally inside this war and fighting now.
The saying goes no government ever willingly went broke through austerity.
They will always resort to printing.
Printing the difference through YCC is going to cause DXY to explode higher because 58% of DXY is the Euro. DXY to $150 dollar milkshake theory type shit.
This dollar wrecking ball will cause emerging markets to begin potentially defaulting on their debt, forcing them to sell their US bonds to buy US dollars to defend their currencies.
As EM's sell US bonds to amass dollars to defend their currencies, US bond yields will explode higher causing systemic risks in US markets as everything is priced off US treasuries.
The Fed then has two options to fix this which I believe they will explore both.
Swap lines with ECB and BOJ (they launched a standing swap line facility in July 2021 to make this easy.
This allows them to easily lend dollars via central bank reserves to these central banks which will help bring down DXY and stabilize sovereign FX markets.They can then also use their new standing repo facility to provide overnight loans to stabilize funding/treasury markets on short duration bonds.
The usage of this swap line facility and repo facility is net stimulative and will cause DXY to come down and markets to stabilize
In conclusion, we may be at the end of a major sovereign bond bubble and this energy crisis is the catalyst.
One of opinion is the Fed could select the option to stimulate or risk full implosion of the monetary system.
Be careful no to biased, taking different angles to avoid any critical biased thinking.