The Fed Sent $76BN To Treasury In 2022; It Is Now Sending $650 Million To Banks Every Day Instead
(www.zerohedge.com)
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Agree. Can someone please explain?!
I'll try. Banks have capital requirements. Some banks have more than they need, some have less. So essentially, the poor bank who needs cash borrows it overnight and then pays it right back to the rich bank with interest. This interest is paid by the Fed. And there's so much freaking money in the money supply, there is like over $2T of these arrangements on the Fed's books every night, so it's costing the Fed $650B daily in interest paid out to banks. The article points out the irony that the Fed is big time subsidizing the banks (subsidized anything is a problem for a free market) and because of their stupid interest rate policies combined with the massive money supply, the Fed is getting squeezed, hard. So yay, white hats winning the battle with the Federal Reserve! That's it, in a nutshell.
Very clear, thank you!
Are you being sarcastic? Sorry I couldn't tell. I'd really like you to not be sarcastic. If youre serious, could you help me understand how this means white hats are winning in the Fed Reserve battle? I've always hard a hard time wrapping my head around the mechanics of our money supply...
I was not trying to be sarcastic. My explanation is definitely over simplified and doesn't go into what is a repo and a reverse repo. They don't want people to understand. The topic is deliberately obfuscated. I can't give you my finance degree, but I can point to to you investopedia.com, which can get you up to speed
Money is being printed and given to the banks as interest payments to the debt that we owe to the banks for printing money and giving it to the banks.