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Fed Swears to Preserve, Protect, and Defend Moral Hazard 3/26/20


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Fed Gave Primary Dealers $110 Billion Outright Today, March 25

by Lee Adler •  • 0 Comments

The Fed bought $70 billion in Treasuries and $40 billion in MBS from Primary Dealers today. That’s a month’s worth of old QE in a day. They’ve been doing it every day this week and will do it again Thursday and Friday. 

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Fed Has Scheduled A Month’s Worth of Old QE PER DAY!

by Lee Adler •  • 0 Comments

The Fed scheduled $123 billion per day in Treasury and MBS purchases this week. That’s a month’s worth of old QE per day. What about unintended consequences?

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The Fed will be precluded from buying non investment grade corporate debt.  Ford just was downgraded below that yesterday.  At any rate the power to cut off corporations from Fed largess is a great power.  I would think anyone buying stock should at a minimum make sure that it's debt rating is investment grade. The gold standard will be corporations that have had their debt bought by the Fed. Once that happens they will not be allowed to go bankrupt. More credit will always be on the way. 

Some call this moral hazard. It's actually the way things were always pointing. 

I truly  think this moment, monetizing corporate debt, and probably soon enough equity, is a monetary revolution. The trick will be preventing revolution down below.

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43 minutes ago, DrStool said:

When the central bank of the state owns everything, what the hell is that? 

It isn't ownership. It's the supplier of capital  to the owners via buying their debt. . With an interest, really an imperative, to make sure they do not default on that debt. Thus all layers of government will support the favored  companies and if needs be the Fed will continue to give them more credit.

I came in here 18 years ago saying that somehow, and I didn't know how and back then I didn't really know how the banking system created money, I mean really know the mechanisms, that eventually money would be based upon corporations.  So here we are.

Some will say it's the end of capitalism but I look at it as the perfection of it. 

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