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comment by kleinbl00

Yeah he dropped a half trillion in stimulus and shot the last bullets in the gun and the futures market went limit down in fifteen minutes.

Balance sheets are fine but thanks to fractional reserve banking there's only enough cash to cover 5% of what's out there and right now treasuries aren't trading. Nobody wants to buy your shitty debt because they don't think it's worth anything.





kleinbl00  ·  1493 days ago  ·  link  ·  

#Missionaccomplished

blackbootz  ·  1493 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And they also eliminated reserve requirements--dropped them to zero--for thousands of commercial banks. Not sure if that includes the big ones, but in an effort to boost spending, the Fed is pushing banks to have nothing in reserve. That seems cross-purposes to long or even medium-term solvency. That 5% cash to cover what's out will now drop to... near-zero? Or will banks bulk up on reserves so actually increase?

kleinbl00  ·  1493 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The problem is the Fed has one tool - liquidity. We've got something structural here. Lots of us have been harping about the structural problems for a long time and the Fed can even agree - it doesn't change the fact that the only solution they have is pouring money on it.