The surge in interest rates over the past 12 months has encouraged an outflow of deposits from the banking system into money market mutual funds but, unfortunately, those funds are not recycling any of that liquidity back into the credit markets. Meanwhile, only two months later the economy’s apparent strong start to the year in January looks increasingly like it was a brief sugar high.
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