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Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Update: Week Of September 8
It is time for the weekly update of the only financial component that really matters: the composition of the Fed's $2.3 trillion (and rising) balance sheet.
- Securities
held outright: $2,047 billion, an increase of $1.8 billion from the week prior.- Total Treasury holdings increased
from $786 billion to 788 billion, as the Fed bought another $1.7 billion in
USTs as part of QE Lite. - MBS holdings were flat at $1.1 trillion.
- Agency holdings were also flat at $157 billion.
- Total Treasury holdings increased
- Net
borrowings: unchanged at
$60 billion from the prior week. - Float,
liquidity
swaps, Maiden Lane and other assets: $185
billion, an increase of $1 billion. FX liquidity swaps are at $64 million as the same bank that is experiencing a USD funding crisis continues to have no EURIBOR/LIBOR acces. The "value" of Maiden
Lane I declined just marginally from the highest since November 2008, and was at $15.97
billion. Maiden Lane II was at $23 billion, while AIA Aurora was $25.7
billion. - The monetary base declined by $2 billion and was $1.993 trillion (even as M2 surged in the past week. More on this shortly)
- Reserve balances with banks: $1.031 trillion, a decline of $3 billion from the prior week.
- Foreign holdings of USTs and MBS at a new all time high of $3.22 trillion.
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Foreign holdings of USTs and MBS at a new all time high of $3.22 trillion
Wonder how much of that is by the private members/owners of the US Federal Reserve in the CITY OF London, Germany etc?
Follow-on questions:
Is there a loan contract between the Federal Reserve and Commercial Banks? Does the Federal Reserve account for these loans?
So many questions, so little answers.
The insanity just continues on. And the Dow futures are up 65 points. Man this is going to get ugly.
Take another look. You're looking at easy triple digits by the bell.
"Foreign holdings of USTs and MBS at a new all time high of $3.22 trillion."
I believe this is a very serious issue that deserves more attention. It would seem everybody else is going all out to provide the UST market its backstop bid.
And the Fed is promising open ended support for UST's in the form of rolling over the junk already bought.
Crazy.
crazy? sounds like the world get's out national interest just right in my view.
buy gold. buy silver. take delivery. pray.
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so you're saying prayer makes that market go higher? i'm confused.
Two humans attempt to share concern and express mutual support in difficult times and you just had to butt in? One can be an atheist without also insisting on being a horse's ass.
an atheist? i'd like for you to explain to me how you met God the way I have.
I imagine that the Beatitudes come out sounding a whole lot different when you read them.
Further it would seem you possess all the brain power contained within said horse's arse.
Well, I guess it's a natural occurence. Like mosquitos, annoying insects come with the territory.
Pray? How will that help?
Buy gold. Buy Silver. Take delivery. PREPARE.
Pray? How will that help?
It helps some people. If you are really looking for an answer to that question and aren't just making waves, then I suggest that you head on down to your local church, temple or mosque and inquire within. They will be happy to help you.
I went to the mosque. They told me to blow up a temple.
I'm quite sure that you have never engaged in a conversation with a Muslim in your entire life.
It's about spirituality. It's about coming to terms with the fact that you are not God or Allah or whatever.
It's about realizing you are not the all knowing, be all.
It is not about arrogance which abounds and is a keystone in the fragile structure now coming down around the self-anointed.
Silver will drag a kicking and screaming gold to new highs; JPM and the banksters can't control the Asians forever; unbelievable volatility this morning; when it hit 19.98 it immediately got slammed $0.16. Huge swing in a few minutes. But, it's coming back.
That's a lot of assets.
What did they give in exchange for them?
Newly printed money!!
(Supposedly, the run out from MBS payments, which otherwise would have shrunk the money supply)
no, actually. far less. a believe it's called "a promise." would you like me to explain what that promise might contain? 'cause believe me "there be some dark places in this world" as well as "promising things that planet peon would look forward too" as well.
One thing I have noticed is the balance sheet of the Fed shows very little movement in August-Sept '07 when the 'credit crisis' first began to show.
Whereas the RBA shows a massive drop in foreign exchange reserves (& total liabilities) from this point.
Thoughts anyone?
this is interesting. why not tell us your thoughts on what it means?
By law, federal reserve banks get 6% on 1% of all reserves, and isn't there a new 0.25% bonus on all "excess" reserves?
Looking at the chart one would have to say that it is boomtime bonanza for the cartel (the privately held federal reserve and all it's agents) , between the bailout that they orchestrated which in effect was a heist, and to top it off, they get paid on the heist perpetually!
Even if people can't articulate it, US citizens know they were robbed--when a the government let's this kind of crime pass off as "for the good of the people" it is only a matter of time when our 'currency' will be seen as corrupt as well.
Yeah but who's paying who? Is the federal reserve making the interest income or are the banks?
See: http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reqresbalances.htm
I tried to copy and paste but the tables lost their formatting.
Thankx CrokettAlmanac.com--soooo it is worse than i thought:
6% on 1% of the required reserves is less than the current 0.25% on required reserves PLUS 0.25% on the excess....
OUR TAX MONEY IS PAYING THIS CARTEL who have captured out government by turning our elected officials into puppets for their benefit.
The excuse for this massive scheme is that if our government took over operations of the coinage instead of letting the privately owned federal reserve, that it would cost the same--i say "OH REALLY?!!!!" THAT IS A LIE!!!!!!!
Anyone who is not sure what this is all about, read Creature from Jekyll Island and you can see a recap by the author on youtube if you like...the book was written over 20 years ago, and is a history book on facts about our federal reserve that most people don't know, like the fact that it is a privatley owned company. The first chapter of the book is called THE BAILOUT...how is that for prophetic.!!!
Here's some more ammo:
http://www.scribd.com/full/37179258?access_key=key-1cuxpp2jlyrgxlh33vds
History of the Money Changers
zacnik,
Thanks for the post. This should be read by every citizen.
But you have to admit, the Biddles did know how to make money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Biddle_Barrows
So.....banks have a "safe" place to deposit and for the time being it only costs them .25%. That's $2.5B in revenue to the federal reserve right? Wow, nice gig for the fed. And the fed gets the interest off their treasury holdings also (although I understand they have to return anything beyond their costs to the US treasury. Kind of like having a lucrative cost plus government contract). So the interst on their investments covers their costs and the bank fees are pure profit?
I think I'll join those who are praying!
So.....banks have a "safe" place to deposit and for the time being it only costs them .25%.
No, the banks earn .25% interest on reserves from the Fed. That helps to keep them from lending. It helps sterilize the increase in the monetary base and prevents the fractional reserve system from increasing the money supply available to the public.
currency already seen as corrupt. it's called a "super market." you buy food and water there and certainly "never pay less." if you start to ask "what the hell else am i going to have pay for!!" all i have to say is...don't go there, man. just.....don't go there.
They are literally going for a triple shock power faudfest now. All the remaining chips are splashing the pot at this point.
Wow, honest to Christ...what a fucking sham this has truly become.
Futures cruising to an easy triple digit open. LOL...I've seen it all...or I've seen enough.
This does not bode well for my bonds I suppose........
It doesn't bode well for anything except farming.
LOL...my acorn squash is doing well and so are my mercury dimes.
yeah but how's your supply of lead lookin'? it might be time to "buddy up" if you know what i mean.
Cut in half, gut the seeds, Brown Sugar sprinkled, baked in the oven always tasted great. Enjoy !!!
rocker,
I second that! That is the recipe my wife uses once or twice a month (when available). Excellent! I think she adds a little butter to help the flavor.
There is a reason that traitors are hung by the neck until dead and it is a higher order fundamental than even the truism "gold=money." We are going to suffer the consequences of failing to live by both of these given facts.
like the pic only one observation: death wings point down, not up. At least how I think it was a bunch of guys who worked for a thing called the SAS represented it. I could be mistaken....
Many fools yet to be lured in when they get a whiff of the "recovery".
Ballz to the wallz, boyz.
The 'recovery' is under way. Just like the money markets 'recovered' from the 2000-2002 fall.
All depends on how you define recovery. Inflating the currency? Deflating the dollar in terms of gold....?
Gotta get those retail suckers back. They cant seem to grind past key resistance levels during market hours, so they gap above them with the futures and the bots grind sideways the rest of the day.
Once the idea that the bottom is in ala Doug Kasshole is sold, then we get the rug pulled out trick.
Ironically enough, if the repubs win back congress claiming stimulus failed, that will pave the way for QE 2.0 new and improved version.
Shylockracy axiom: "let me print fiat-confetti and I will own your body, soul and labour down innumerable generations"
Shylockracy lemma: "trust this crew, regret and rue."
Read his:
ECB's Wellink: banks need 100s of blns of capital
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINWEA769820100913
I read Michael Lewis' "Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds" and what struck me as the gist of Greece's Problems is that they don't trust anyone in their own government or private sector. All human relations are based on trust and I feel after reading data like this that it can't be long before the world begins to wonder if it isn't time to rethink the dollar's role in the scheme of things. Monetary policy has no control over "animal spirits" and we are getting fucking pissed. Raise your hand if you feel Ben has commited a heinous trespass of thy foul orifice! The ruling class's house of cards is soon to tumble and me thinks the likes of the French Revolution are possibly ahead.
Nope,dream on. They will simply print more money. The masses will never revolt against a govt that gives them free money.
The trust that needs to be established should be between the members of the community of the "common man/woman". Screw TPTB, we only have each other.
The slow skittering of sand over an increasingly festering pile of deep doodoo.
Fed -> $4.8B -> Wall St
S&P +7.2
$1.5B per point
C'mon Ben...S&P 2000 is only another $1.5T!
Updated DOW weekly chart:
http://stockmarket618.wordpress.com
Thank u, i found this for a long time.
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