Yes, the Fed keeps monetizing the debt. Just look at today’s Treasury Cash Management Bill auction.
But they will gladly pay us back on Tuesday. They’ll borrow more to do it.
You may heve noticed a lack of posts since yesterday. Ijust arrived in Paris, beginning my annual European sojourn. I’ll be settling in to Bordeaux…
The Department of Welfare and Mendicant Services at the New York Fed has released the schedule of repurchase agreement (repo) Primary Dealer welfare support operations for the monthly period from November 15, 2019 through December 12, 2019. Let us give thanks.
The Fed bought $15.7 billion in T-bills, notes, and bonds from dealers. That’s higher powered money because the Fed is actually cashing out the dealers. TOMO is just a loan to enable them to carry their fixed income inventories without having to liquidate at a loss.
And boy they took some losses last week.
The Federal budget deficit is blowing out. Federal tax revenues are growing slowly, and Federal outlays are exploding. The Fed is monetizing the debt. Here’s why this is like the Boeing 737 800 Max.
The US Treasury daily tax data showed weak revenue and soaring outlays in October. The deficit is soaring, but the Fed is monetizing every penny…
If the Fed wants money rates to drop and stay down by another quarter point, it will need to imagineer even more money.
The Fed keeps imagineering money into existence, right on schedule. But t’ain’t buying what it used ta.
Today’s Fed POMO was small, but TOMO went through the roof.