What the New York Fed is doing is unprecedented in U.S. history and yet you will find no mention of it on any front page of a newspaper today.
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens and cross-posted from Wall Street on Parade.
Yesterday the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York Fed) announced that the giant money spigot it turned on for Wall Street on September 17 would be growing exponentially beginning today.
The New York Fed will now be lavishing up to $120 billion a day in cheap overnight loans to Wall Street securities trading firms, a daily increase of $45 billion from its previously announced $75 billion a day. In addition, it is increasing its 14-day term loans to Wall Street, a program which also came out of the blue in September, to $45 billion. Those term loans since September have been occurring twice a week, meaning another $90 billion a week will be offered, bringing the total weekly offering to an astounding $690 billion. It should be noted that if the same Wall Street firms are getting these loans continuously rolled over, they are effectively permanent loans. (That’s exactly what happened during the 2007-2010 Wall Street collapse: some teetering Wall Street casinos received, individually, $2 trillion in cumulative loans that were rolled over for two and one-half years – without the authorization or even awareness of Congress or the American people. One bank, Citigroup, received over $2.5 trillion in Fed loans, much of them at an interest rate below 1 percent, at a time when it was insolvent and couldn’t have obtained loans in the open market at even high double-digit interest rates.)
This latest announcement from the Fed comes on the heels of an October 11 announcement that it is launching a program to buy up $60 billion a month in Treasury bills and that program will last into “at least” the second quarter of next year.
What the New York Fed is doing is unprecedented in U.S. history and yet you will find no mention of it on any front page of a newspaper today…
Since 2008-9, I continue to maintain “QE to infinity”. It’s the inevitability of all ponzi’s – of which the PRIVATELY-held [NOT]Federal[NO]Reserve is only different in its magnitude.
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And i thought that the Wall st banks are now much saver than before the 2008 Crash, or so was i told by the Main street press. I also thought that the world is going to end in 18 month due to climate change, or so i was told by the Main street press. I start feeling unconfortable and i need a safe space!
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The Federal Reserve is running a ponzi scheme that creates all of the principal of loans but never creates the interest to pay them off. It embezzles money from the auctions of Treasury securities that disappears from government records. Ref. https://thedailycoin.org/2018/08/16/a-look-at-the-federal-reserve-through-a-different-lens/ .
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