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The dual victories by the two Democratic candidates, Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, in the Georgian senatorial runoff elections were one of several historical events that effected America and financial markets in what will go down as an infamous week in U.S. history. The new Democrat controlled presidency, House, and now Senate, will result in a much more liberal array of policies, including significant fiscal stimulus and other additional spending.

This can set off a highly inter-related series of economic events — deficit Treasury funding; increased monetary growth to allow the Federal Reserve to continue, or if needed, increase their Treasury and mortgage-backed securities purchase programs; interest rates pushed higher both by the need to attract buyers of new Treasury debt as well as the fixed income market's expectations for reflation; and quite possibly, actual increases in inflation.