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Over at the Federal Reserve, banks have special accounts where they put their extra cash.

“There’s plenty of liquidity available to buy these T-bills,” he said. So does Eric Winograd, chief economist at AllianceBernstein. “I think people worry that could affect the economy,” said Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab Center for Financial Research. “If the money comes from banks, then that might mean we have less reserves in the banking system and less willingness to lend, and less willingness to lend means a slower economy.” So what happens when the government needs to sell a trillion dollars’ worth of Treasurys and do it quickly? The money people are going use to buy them has to come from somewhere. Some analysts worry about that money coming out of bank accounts, which could be bad for banks. So the grand total for how much the government needs to bring in is “in the trillion-dollar neighborhood over the next three to six months,” said Jonah Crane, a partner with Klaros Group. “In addition, they have to repay some of the extraordinary measures they took out,” Mateyo said.Įxtraordinary measures is the Treasury’s way of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul - delaying investments in government employee retirement funds, moving money from one agency to another just to pay the bills. All that’s another $270 billion the Treasury needs to raise. So the government has to sell a lot of Treasuries to make that up. Right now, he said there’s around $37 billion in the Treasury general account. On the day we hit the debt ceiling, there was more than $450 billion. “The Treasury Department has to replenish their checking account, basically,” said George Mateyo, chief investment officer at Key Private Bank. As a result, funds are now running very low. hit its debt ceiling back in January, it’s basically like the national credit card was cut off. So since then, the government’s been using the national debit card - paying cash and not borrowing.

The Treasury Department is going have to make up for lost time and raise a whole lot of cash pretty quickly. That means some big moves within financial markets. The question is, what does that mean for the economy? Assuming the debt ceiling deal makes its way through the Senate and to the president, we should be all good, right? Maybe. Probably. Maybe not though.