Quantitative easing

  • The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet: A Closer Look

    According to reports, according to the latest data on the official website of the Federal Reserve, as of March 21, the size of the Federal Reserve\’s balance sheet was $8733 trillio

    03/26/2023
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  • Bianco on the Federal Reserve’s Accommodative Policy

    According to reports, James Bianco, president of research institution Bianco, said that the Fed’s action was another form of quantitative easing, completely out of the script of COVID-19 and the 2008 financial crisis. Coupled with record discount window borrowing and balance sheet expansion, the Federal Reserve is becoming increasingly accommodative. It is expected that only two situations will occur in the future, one is that the United States authorities are acting too slowly, and the other is that the “financial crisis” is worsening. If the authorities act quickly enough to contain the crisis, large-scale stimulus measures mean that in the second half of 2023 and 2024, the United States will have a more serious inflation problem. The best option is for each customer to make their own decision to transfer hundreds of billions of dollars in deposits back to regional banks. As long as funds continue to flow out of regional banks, there will always be worse and worse options….

    03/20/2023
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  • Cryptocurrency as a smoke alarm for the failing financial system

    On March 17th, Arthur Hayes, the founder of BitMEX, wrote that the Federal Reserve’s Bank Term Financing Plan (BTFP) had undertaken quantitative easing of $4.4 trillion in another way, even exceeding the $4.189 trillion printed in response to the COVID crisis. Although the BTFP plan is mandated to last only one year, it will almost certainly be extended preventively. The Federal Reserve is expected to either start cutting interest rates at its upcoming March meeting or a severe recession in a few months will force it to turn. Since the outbreak of the banking crisis, the yield on two-year Treasury bills has fallen by more than 100 basis points. The market is crying out for deflation supported by the banking system, and the Federal Reserve will eventually listen to the market. In this banking crisis, cryptocurrency has once again proven to be a stinky, wasteful, smoke alarm for the legal tender driven Western financial system. Founder of BitMEX: BTFP plans…

    03/17/2023
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