Federal Reserve

Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March

by Wolf Richter • Apr 30, 2020 • 132 Comments

Fed shed MBS. Loans to “SPVs” flat for fifth week. Repos in disuse. Fed still hasn’t bought junk bonds, stocks, or ETFs. But it sure sent Wall Street dreaming.

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.

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