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US Treasury Concerned About "Loss Of Market Access"



Why Is The US Treasury Suddenly Concerned About "Loss Of Market Access"
Summarizing the story so far: after years of never even once contemplating how much cash the US Treasury has on eht books, suddenly, 5 years into the "recovery" the Treasury is suddenly very concerned about the level of statutory cash. Why? Fears over loss of "market access" such as those during a "glitchy" 4 week bill auction in December 2003 (implication: malicious hackers) or September 11 (implication: domestic terrorism accident). And what is probably most disturbing is the TBAC's ultimate answer to the TSY's question whether it should hold more cash:

The Committee concluded that it would be cost effective and prudent for Treasury to hold a higher cash balance. Just in case, surely. Still, one wonders, do they know something we don't, and just what was unreported during the "framework discussion" phase, and just how long until the Treasury tests out its increased cash retention strategy, and most importantly: just what upcoming event could lead to the Treasury "losing market access"?


Bill Herbst writing about the US Sibly and how it reflects the coming economic crisis says:


With Uranus moving into opposition with the USA natal Saturn, and Pluto moving into opposition with the USA natal Sun, and with both these axes aligned at right angles, something’s got to give. The USA chart is 237 years old. It has been through many major multiple-planet transit alignments over those two-plus centuries. But the USA chart has never been through any multi-planet transit configuration this precise, powerful, or disruptive. Uranus opposes the USA natal Saturn every 84 years, so that’s happened twice before in the country’s history (in 1847-48 and 1930-31, with severe economic disruption occurring each time. By contrast, Pluto — the archetypal symbol for death-and-rebirth through eruptive convulsions — has never been opposite the USA natal Sun. This will be the first time that astrological event has occurred in American history. Not only is that transit unprecedented, but it’s happening simultaneously with the Uranus opposition to the USA natal Saturn, and while Uranus and Pluto are square each other. Friends, that’s off the scale. The argument can be made that this is most important crossroads ever faced by this nation, every bit as important as the Civil War or the Great Depression.









With such powerful transits taking place in the US chart, the daily angles of the progressed solar return can be great indicators of events. Shown here is the progressed solar return (precessed) for  August 6, the date of the news item. Notice the perfect alignment of the horizon axis with the Pluto-Uranus square. If we recall that Pluto is transiting opposite the Sibly Sun in the 8th house – a house concerned with debt and financial crisis, this news doesn’t come as a surprise.


P.S. Factor in the chart for the upcoming lunar eclipse at Washington which once again highlights the same crisis.



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