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Fed Goes Nuts with Repos & T-Bills but Sheds Mortgage Backed Securities
Fed Goes Nuts with Repos & T-Bills but Sheds Mortgage Backed Securities The fastest increase in assets for any two-month period since the post-Lehman freak show in late 2008 and early 2009. Total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet, released today, jumped by $94 billion over the past month through November 6, to $4.04 trillion, after […]
Fed Warns Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The Economy
Fed Warns Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The Economy What is a good way for the Fed to deflect attention from the fact that after a decade of liquidity injections it has created the world’s largest asset bubble? Why point to another, even bigger – in its view – threat. And with green […]
Is the Global Dollar in Jeopardy?
Is the Global Dollar in Jeopardy? The US Federal Reserve is right to be concerned, if not worried, about the greenback’s dominance of international trade and finance. Fortunately for consumers, growing potential competitive pressure – call it the Libra effect – creates an incentive to make the existing system work better. WASHINGTON, DC – Since […]
American Conspiracies & Cover-upsJFK, 9/11, the Fed, rigged elections, suppressed cancer cures and the greatest conspiracies of our time
American Conspiracies & Cover-upsJFK, 9/11, the Fed, rigged elections, suppressed cancer cures and the greatest conspiracies of our time In today’s world, the phrase “conspiracy theory” is pejorative and has a negative connotation. To many people, a conspiracy theory is an irrational, over-imaginative idea endorsed by people looking for attention and not supported by the […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Fed’s Bailout of the Repo Market?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Fed’s Bailout of the Repo Market? Whose Bets are Getting Bailed Out by the Fed’s Repos & Treasury Bill Purchases?
Peter Schiff: When Is the Market Going to Wake Up to this Con?
Peter Schiff: When Is the Market Going to Wake Up to this Con? As expected, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates another 25 basis points on Wednesday. The mainstream read the post FOMC meeting comments to be relatively hawkish, saying Powell and Company seemed to indicate that future rate cutting is on pause. Peter Schiff […]
Fed Cuts Rates Again, But Drops “Act As Appropriate” Pledge Signaling It Is Done Cutting
Fed Cuts Rates Again, But Drops “Act As Appropriate” Pledge Signaling It Is Done Cutting While the assumption is that Fed officials (having passed on the opportunity to lean against dovish market expectations) would not shock the market and vote to keep rates unchanged (96% odds and Fed has never surprised at that level), that’s […]
Fed Panics & Starts Massive Money Printing – Michael Pento
Fed Panics & Starts Massive Money Printing – Michael Pento Economist and money manager Michael Pento says the recent Federal Reserve about face in policy with cutting rates and new QE (money printing) means only one thing. Pento explains, “So, the Fed changed their mind, panicked, the Fed panicked. They not only stopped raising rates, […]
How to Prepare as the Fed Scorches the Earth
How to Prepare as the Fed Scorches the Earth Wildfire Surge The hillsides are always brown in the land of fruits and nuts come autumn. After baking away all summer long in the hot sun, the dense sage and chaparral covering the coastal hillsides and canyons are dry and toasty. Though, before conditions get better, they […]
Intervention
Intervention The Fed has gone into full intervention mode. Not only into full intervention mode, but accelerated intervention mode. Not just a little “mid cycle adjustment” but full bore daily interventions to the tune of dozens of billions of dollars every single day. What’s the crisis? After all we live in the age of trillion […]
Dollar Liquidity Turmoil Returns With First Oversubscribed Term Repo In A Month, $99.9 Billion Liquidity Injection
Dollar Liquidity Turmoil Returns With First Oversubscribed Term Repo In A Month, $99.9 Billion Liquidity Injection This was not supposed to happen. After the Fed rolled out the big artillery in response to the sharp, sudden mid-September funding squeeze (which we now know had virtually nothing to do with last month’s tax payments or other one-time events […]
Not Transitory – Fed Liquidity Handout Surges To Near $90 Billion
Not Transitory – Fed Liquidity Handout Surges To Near $90 Billion So much for the ‘transitory’ liquidity shortage arguments put forth by commission-takers and asset-gatherers, The NYFed accepted $87.7 billion (in o/n and term) repo today – the highest level yet. The Fed accepted $20.1 billion in 14-day term repo… And $67.7 billion in overnight […]
Central Banks Are Just Getting Warmed Up
Central Banks Are Just Getting Warmed Up According to all central banks, one of the main problems they are called to solve is that countries cannot reach their inflation target of (close to but below) 2 percent. Even their religious trust in the long-discredited Phillips curve cannot explain why price inflation is low in many countries despite […]
QE for the People
QE for the People Myrmikan’s May letter discussed how the Fed had already begun to ease nancialconditions, though the method was so subtle that few understood what the central bank was doing. Banks are required to keep required reserves at the Fed. Banks that nd themselves with a de cient reserve level have to borrow reserves […]
Is Powell Playing Fed Games?
Is Powell Playing Fed Games? The Federal Reserve will be adding assets to its balance sheet again, but Powell insists it’s not “quantitative easing” The Federal Reserve will be adding assets to its balance sheet again, but Powell insists it’s not “quantitative easing”James GorrieWRITEROctober 10, 2019 Updated: October 10, 2019Share Apparently, the “repo market” purchases by […]
