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I encourage everybody to urgently view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBZ81hmZuNk
In it, you will see the following graph, and an explanation:
The Fed has released updated figures, since that video. It's got worse:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/hist/h3hist4.txt
But, hey! Don't worry about it!! The Fed say's the fact that this is the first time in the last 49 years of recording it, that the numbers have gone negative, is nothing at all. Go back to watching your TV.:
Here's an update on the situation, provided yesterday:
http://www.greenrushcapital.com/greenrush_dr_strangemath.pdf
Something to think about as you try to get to sleep tonight...
Do you know where your FRNs are?
In it, you will see the following graph, and an explanation:

The Fed has released updated figures, since that video. It's got worse:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/hist/h3hist4.txt
But, hey! Don't worry about it!! The Fed say's the fact that this is the first time in the last 49 years of recording it, that the numbers have gone negative, is nothing at all. Go back to watching your TV.:
Source: http://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Choose.aspx?rel=H.3Recent Declines in Nonborrowed Reserves
2008-02-07
The H.3 statistical release indicates that nonborrowed reserves of depository institutions have declined substantially since mid-December to a level that is now negative. This development reflects the provision of a large volume of reserves through the Term Auction Facility (TAF) and has no adverse implications for the availability of reserves to the banking system. By definition, nonborrowed reserves are equal to total reserves minus borrowed reserves. Borrowed reserves are equal to credit extended through the Federal Reserve's regular discount window programs as well as credit extended through the TAF. To maintain a level of total reserves consistent with the Federal Open Market Committee's target federal funds rate, increases in borrowed reserves must generally be met by a commensurate decrease in nonborrowed reserves, which is accomplished through a reduction in the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities and other assets. The negative level of nonborrowed reserves is an arithmetic result of the fact that TAF borrowings are larger than total reserves.
Here's an update on the situation, provided yesterday:
http://www.greenrushcapital.com/greenrush_dr_strangemath.pdf
Unlike Enron, the powers that be have assured us, this is an accounting quirk that we have nothing, nothing at all to worry
about. Because unlike Enron, which was moving bad deals into offshore accounts and then borrowing fresh cash against a
falsified balance sheet to maintain their books, this is totally different. Here we have the Term Auction Facility (TAF), newly
created by The Fed to allow banks in precarious financial positions to circumvent the transparency of the discount window, so
as to pledge unknown assets for unspecified reserves under anonymous conditions. According to the above sources, this is
not because they are in trouble, as one might logically deduce, . It’s because everything is fine, and the effect these transactions
have on turning balance sheets negative is an irrelevant accounting quirk. See the difference?
Something to think about as you try to get to sleep tonight...
Do you know where your FRNs are?