Remember your promise to never leave or forsake us. Finding power in your presence, give our senators the ability to discover solutions to the problems that confront our nation and world. May they strive to make a positive difference for all americans, permitting your light to illumine the way. Lord, provide our legislators with a new vision of faith and a fresh venture of hope as they seek creative ways to help a troubled world. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i would ask permission to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley this month is iowa history month, and for iowa
Nasdaq on track for the best performance. Dow futures indicated up about 34 points and gains for the nasdaq and s p futures treasuries, the 10year has finally hit 1. 9 exactly been watching for that a long time above that yesterday. Looking at it as the economy has shown some pretty strong signs. Now we do it in tens. Normally we wait for 3 . The volatility we talked about that. The inflation volatility is really low he thinks that why multiples have stayed so high. It will take years of inflations coming back. Multiples can stay where they are. This just happened well bring it to you. An Iraqi Security source telling nbc news that demonstrators have stormed the u. S. Embassy in baghdads green zone they have used tear gas grenades to try and prevent them from moving inside the compound hundreds have gathered what we saw. Some saying it was about time that some of the air strikes killed fighters from iranbacked coalition from operating in iraq a big piece saying finally we are addressin
Been Holding Interest rates at abnormally low rates right this is nuts it only encourages it increases this behavior absolutely this is kind of what drove everybody to borrow more because debt is cheap why not take on more debt and thats actual thats must been happening corporates have now been issuing junk bonds at record levels record levels and they are deeply Indebted Companies that d are actually using debt to pay off equities so theyre kind of just like borrowing money just to prop of your own share values and thats been working because youve seen the Massive Equity rise and as you pointed out well all time highs right now we only have like 15 seconds when i ask you about this real quick Federal Reserve just injected another 104 1000000000. 00 into markets overnight again on thursday and ran over night into friday the Federal Reserve is just a huge part of this right continuing to dump cheap money at lowest Interest Rates and its not good for the economy unless were not only that
Private debt its even more concerning even though Government Debt thats the most attention private nonfinancial day in the u. S. Is at 27 trillion versus public debt is at 19 trillion and the reason why private debt is so much more dangerous is because its more problematic is because public debt has more impact on the economic and the economic landscape shirt right now if you look at the past the roaring twentys the japanese boom of the eightys and most recently the u. S. In the early 2000 what did all 3 of those have in common its a huge levels of private debt low relatively low public debt but huge huge unsustainable levels of private debt that kind of just funded the incredible binge and rise you know theres also been a study in the not just of this borrowing taking place right because its really borrowing money that doesnt exist but as part of the Central Banks have been Holding Interest rates at abnormally low rates right this is nuts it only encourages it increases this behavior
Been Holding Interest rates at abnormally low rates right this is nuts it only encourages it increases this behavior absolutely this is kind of what drove everybody to borrow more because debt is cheap why not take on more debt and thats actually thats whats been happening corporates have now been issuing junk bonds at record levels record levels and they are deeply Indebted Companies that d are actually using debt to pay off equities so theyre kind of just like borrowing money just to prop of your own share values and thats been working because youve seen the Massive Equity rise and as you pointed out well all time highs right now we only have like 15 seconds when i ask you about this real quick Federal Reserve just injected another 104000000000 dollars into markets overnight again on thursday and ran over night into friday the Federal Reserve is just a huge part of this right continuing to dump cheap money at lowest Interest Rates and its not good for the economy unless were not only