Federal Reserve

Fed Pays $35 Billion to Banks, $6 Billion to Reverse-Repo Counterparties in Interest for 2019, Remits $55 billion to US Treasury

by Wolf Richter • Jan 12, 2020 • 112 Comments

Then there are the dividends it pays its member banks.

The Wall Street Journal (and Other Media) Should Stop Lying About Repos

by Wolf Richter • Jan 10, 2020 • 206 Comments

My patience has been exhausted.

Fed Drains $45 Billion from Repo Market, back to Oct Level. T-Bill Purchases Continue. Assets Shrink by Most Since QT

by Wolf Richter • Jan 9, 2020 • 78 Comments

The week after the year-end Repo Chaos didn’t happen.

What the Fed Did to Calm Year-End Hissy-Fit of its Crybaby Cronies on Wall Street

by Wolf Richter • Jan 2, 2020 • 105 Comments

But on Jan 1, it removed $64 billion in liquidity via gigantic “Reverse Repo.” And it continues to shed MBS.

Here’s What Gets Me about the Fed’s Warnings of “Excesses and Imbalances that Are Hard to Deal with Later”

by Wolf Richter • Dec 17, 2019 • 175 Comments

We got another one today, warning about all the right things. And then they do the opposite.

Is the Corporate-Debt Bubble Ripe Yet?

by Wolf Richter • Dec 12, 2019 • 84 Comments

What does it mean when the Fed and other central banks jointly bemoan the effects of their own policies? Worried about not being able to keep all the plates spinning?

THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Is the Corporate-Debt Bubble Ripe Yet?

by Wolf Richter • Dec 8, 2019 • 175 Comments

What does it mean when the Fed and other central banks jointly bemoan the effects of their own policies? Worried about not being able to keep all the plates spinning?

Fed Goes Hog-Wild with T-Bills, But Repos Drop from a Month Ago, and MBS Shrink by $22 Bn

by Wolf Richter • Dec 5, 2019 • 126 Comments

Bailing out its crybaby-cronies on Wall Street, even when there isn’t a crisis.

The Fed Slaps Down Negative Interest Rates

by Wolf Richter • Nov 20, 2019 • 107 Comments

A serious rejection in its first major discussion of negative interest rates recounted in the FOMC minutes.

Fed Switches from Mid-Cycle “Adjustment” to Wait-and-See, Pending “Material Reassessment” of its Economic Outlook

by Wolf Richter • Nov 20, 2019 • 21 Comments

My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter.”

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