Yes, the economy is doing great, just listen to Larry Kudlow and that guy getting impeached. But The Fed is going to quietly jam $500 billion into the repo markets/economy, in December alone. You know, just to make sure things are cool. Because the $380 or so billion they already flushed into the Repo markets is just barely keeping the economy functioning. Kind of.
Like I've said before, in 2008, things got sketchy behind the scenes. Then 100+ year old investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed and went bankrupt, "out of nowhere." Then investment bank Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and closed shop a couple weeks later. Then all hell broke loose, and The Fed began a massive bailout to keep the entire economy from collapsing. We've actually had "rolling bailouts ever since, hyper low interest rates and "quantitative easing." Then they tried to slowly edge interest rates back up, and begin heading back towards "normal" conditions in 2017. The stock markets freaked, and The Fed did a quick U-turn.
This year, in 2019, when this thing called the Repo Market seized up in mid September, The Fed rushed in and through money at the problem like a Dubai oil baron throws money at strippers. Well, actually, a lot more than that. This time around, The Fed began the bailout BEFORE any major banks could collapse. And they keep having to jam tens and hundreds of billions of dollars at the problem to try and keep banks and other businesses (names unknown, but including some hedge funds it appears) from collapsing. This won't end well, and the longer they keep this charade going, the worse the inevitable financial collapse will be.
To put 500 HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in perspective, that's like giving every single man, woman, and child in the United States $1,514 all at once.
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