BUSTED: FED SECRETLY MONETIZING DEBT; COLLUDING WITH DEALERS

August 7th, 2009

Via: Chris Martenson:

Just last week, when the auction results were announced it was trumpeted to great fanfare that there was “more than sufficient” bid-to-cover, “strong demand” and all the rest.

And now it turns out that 47% (!) of the bonds that were taken by the primary dealers in that auction have been quietly bought by the Fed and permanently secreted to its balance sheet.

They didn’t even wait a full week! A more honest and open approach would have been for the Fed to simply buy them outright at the auction but this way, using “primary dealers” and “POMOs” and all these other extra steps the basic fact that the Fed is openly monetizing US government debt is effectively hidden from a not-too-terribly inquisitive US press and public.

The speed of the shell game is accelerating.

This immediate repurchase of newly auction bonds by the Fed tells us that demand for these bonds is not nearly as high as advertised, and that things are not quite as strong as represented.

And oh, by the way, don’t expect any stock market weakness while so many billions are being shoveled out the Fed and into the pockets of the primary dealers. They’ll have to do something with all that freshly minted cash…..

More: Zero Hedge: The Fed’s UST-POMO Pyramid Scheme Exposed

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One Response to “BUSTED: FED SECRETLY MONETIZING DEBT; COLLUDING WITH DEALERS”

  1. tochigi says:
    August 12, 2009 at 6:04 am

    sorry, i was away. did this get any msm coverage?

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