Pauls' Revere
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I went ahead and played some Goszilla live today anyway .
Saw B.O.C. play Godzilla live back in the day.
I went ahead and played some Goszilla live today anyway .
Saw B.O.C. play Godzilla live back in the day.
fun thread to review. fed still pledging to prop up tesla via outright corporate bond buying while 401ks crash into nothingness.
Gold was up 70 bucks today. They can only suppress it for so long.
Really, who is still talking about tariffs now?
There's a big part of me that wants to rub Zip's, Swordy's and other noses in this turn of "news" but they're gone....so whatevs.
Treasuries are backed entirely by the working stiff's ability to pay interest to the bankers on debts, that's it. No worky=no taxy=no value.
In other words, the federal government is nationalizing large swaths of the financial markets. The Fed is providing the money to do it. BlackRock will be doing the trades.
This scheme essentially merges the Fed and Treasury into one organization. So, meet your new Fed chairman, Donald J. Trump.
this time to foreign central banks, in the form of a repo facility targeting "foreign and international monetary authorities", i.e. foreign central banks which will be allowed to exchange Treasuries held in custody at the Fed for US dollars.
Now the Fed will be 'repoing' Treasuries held by other central banks
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-launches-repo-facility-provide-dollars-foreign-central-bank
Treasury issue dumping is in full effect now.
4/2/20: $ 5.859T
Fed balance sheet will break $6T for sure next week. Will it hit $7T with the FIMA repos?
4/9/20: $ 6.131T
Much lower than I was expecting. Seems unreal with all the programs the Fed has initiated.
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Just for giggles I looked up who Beckworth and Ozimek are. A couple of Keynesians posing as libertarians.
I have linked to Beckworth's blog here for the last five years. Beckworth is decidedly not a Keynesian. Not sure where you got that. He is basically as Friedmanite as you get. My second favorite living economist behind Sumner. Right about everything the last ten years.
Don't really know much about Ozimek.