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The U.S. debt, short term financing, interest rates and future tax increases- implications of current policy
01/16/2009
The implications of a loose monetary policy by the U.S. Federal Reserve and about 52% of debt being of short term maturities of less than 3 years at low interest rates- an average of 2.24% on U.S. Treasury debt of over $11 trillion in Jan. 2012. If interest rates were to rise in 2014-2017 as predicted by the CBO, interest rates of 5-6% could mean significantly higher interest payments on the debt- doubling or tripling current interest payments on debt of $225 billion- and calls for tax increases such as the value addded taxes in Europe.
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