Much to get to on this very busy day so lets get started. And we begin with a huge new surge of over 15000 new coronavirus cases reported on just wednesday alone and that news was enough for chinas leadership to oust 2 communist Party Leaders in the who by province in the center of the outbreak the news of those new infections means that indications that the virus was beginning to taper off thats what so many had hoped for is simply not accurate and when it comes to markets they reacted markets down today thanks to concerns that the worst is actually not behind us after all and that Chinas Health commission has reported more than 1300 deaths and now more than 60000 infections aside from the 2 Party Officials who have been ousted in china hundreds of other officials have been paralyzed and dozens were fired for not properly performing their duties during this outbreak. And for more on all of this were joined by boom bust cohosts christiane who is joining us once again from Los Angeles C
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
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
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 that but they also include 28. 42 day term loan repos into this agenda and thats the new news for right now so theyve tried to inject money into the system consistently that has not solve the problem so now theyre extending the term and trying to increase more liquidity and right now the most worrisome part of all is that theyve made this the new normal so whats going to happen when they take their hand out of the Banking System right now they cant i think we all know eur
Finance over the past decade global dead has ballooned by more than 70 trillion dollars which again has been driven by both governments and corporations so christine lets break this down here because were talking about a global debt that is really equivalent to 320 percent again these numbers are so hard to even fathom 320 percent of global Gross Domestic Product how is that sustainable on any level is not sustainable and thats why this rising debt level that has absolutely no signs of slowing down has been flagged by economists as one of the biggest risks for the economy and probably the next breaking point and right now as you point out this is a combination of both Government Debt public that as well as private debt and the 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 p