Fed Cut Back on Helicopter Money for Wall Street & the Wealthy by Wolf Richter • Apr 23, 2020 • 165 Comments Tapered QE-4 Further, Still Hasn’t Bought Junk Bonds or ETFs, Was Just Jawboning.
Fed Massively Tapered QE-4. Hasn’t Bought Any Junk Bonds, Was Just Jawboning by Wolf Richter • Apr 17, 2020 • 128 Comments Helicopter Money for Wall Street & the Wealthy: $2.06 Trillion in 5 Weeks. Regular folks, forget it.
“Mortgage Forbearance” is Suddenly Hot, Hits Shadow Banks, which Clamor for Bailout from Taxpayers and the Fed by Wolf Richter • Apr 10, 2020 • 234 Comments “The mortgage market has more risk than previously acknowledged.”
QE-4 Cut in Half this Week. Fed’s Helicopter Money for Wall Street & the Wealthy Hits $1.8 Trillion in 4 Weeks by Wolf Richter • Apr 9, 2020 • 224 Comments Regular folks need not apply.
New York Fed, FDIC Tout “Opacity in a Banking Crisis” to Keep Corporations, Hedge Funds, PE Firms & Counterparties in the Dark about Weak Banks by Wolf Richter • Apr 6, 2020 • 188 Comments “Suppressing” bank balance-sheet data in a banking crisis to prevent the biggies from yanking their billions out of a weakened bank.
$1.5 Trillion Helicopter Money for Wall Street in 3 Weeks of Fed Bailouts by Wolf Richter • Apr 2, 2020 • 216 Comments Loading up on Treasury securities, mortgage-backed securities, repos, “central bank liquidity swaps,” and “loans” to keep the Everything Bubble from imploding further.
Corruption in the Time of Coronavirus by Karen Parker Feld • Mar 29, 2020 • 279 Comments Now even the fig leaf is gone.
Helicopter Money for Wall Street by Wolf Richter • Mar 26, 2020 • 274 Comments Fed’s assets spike to high heaven to bail out the imploded Everything Bubble it had worked so hard to inflate over the past decade.
What Are All the Fed’s Corporate & Investor Bailout Programs and SPVs? Here’s the Whole Shitload of Them by Wolf Richter • Mar 23, 2020 • 232 Comments Indirectly via its Special Purpose Vehicles and its Primary Dealers, the Fed can buy even old bicycles, as long as taxpayers take the losses.
Leveraged Loans Blow Out. Distressed Corporate Debt Spikes by Wolf Richter • Mar 23, 2020 • 252 Comments This is the moment when yield-chasing turns into a massacre.
