The Fed Means Business

When the Fed said that they were going employ all available tools to promote economic recovery and to preserve price stability they were not kidding.

As stated in the Wednesday March 18, 2009 edition of the NY Times:

WASHINGTON ” Saying that the recession continues to deepen, the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it would pump an extra $1 trillion into the mortgage market and longer-term Treasury securities in order to revive the economy.

This comes as sign of confidence that the recession we have all found ourselves in has fewer days than many people predicted. So long as the Fed keeps this aggressive determination toward fixing the credit markets.

In September 2008 the Central Bank had $900 billion on its balance sheet and now we are nearly $2 trillion which shows the world how serious the Federal Reserve is about getting the economy back on track.

In todays NY Times it also stated:

Fed officials have said they hope to expand the program next month, possibly to include the huge market for commercial mortgages, and both the Fed and Treasury hope the program will eventually provide up to $1 trillion in total financing.

So what does all this mean? Well for starters, it is expected that the Financial Institutions will be able to write more loans for people to buy more products to put more people to work so they can buy more and get more loans.and so on.

Who will make the first move though? This is the major sticking point to the whole things. Until the sales orders come in at a company they are not going to hire more people and start purchasing more raw materials, so who will go first?

It will have to being with the Governments of Unites States and Canada buying more products to create these orders to get the ball rolling. Loosing up the credit requirements without the backing of the orders can cause even more economic issues when those loans are defaulted on because the people that took the loans are not working.

I am certain this will be on its way shortly as there is much planning now in both the United States and Canada to do just that, and it will not happen a day to soon either.

So the next hurdle will be for companies to get the financing they need to accept these orders. Even with the abundance of funds for companies, many companies will not qualify for bank loans due to their financials over the last couple of year.

This is the time to speak to a Professional Commercial Finance Broker as they will have far more products available to them than the banks have so you can actually accept the orders and get them out the door.

You will see a marked rise in the use of Accounts Receivable Factoring and Purchase Order Finance. This type of financing has been on the rise over the last 10 years of so, but it will now play an increased role in our immediate economy so it will not be a bad idea to get set up for it so you are not scrambling to find a funder.

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