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Oct. 8, 2019 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
04:12
Federal Reserve’s Latest Bailouts More Proof Bad Times Ahead

The need for the Fed to shove billions into the repo market to keep that market’s interest rate near the Fed’s target shows the Fed is losing its power to control the price of money.

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Fed's Bailout Response 00:02:15
Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
Federal Reserve's latest bailouts, more proof, bad times ahead.
Since September 17th, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has pumped billions of dollars into the repurchasing market, the first such intervention since 2009.
The Fed has announced that it will continue to inject as much as $75 billion a day into the repo markets until November 4th.
The repo market provides a means for banks that are temporarily short of cash to obtain short-term loans from other banks.
The Fed's interventions were a response to a sudden cash shortage that caused interest rates for these short-term loans to climb to 10%, far above the Fed's target rate.
One of the factors blamed for the repo market's cash shortage is the Federal Reserve's sale of assets it acquired via the quantitative easing programs.
Since launching its effort to unwind its balance sheet, the Fed has reduced its holdings by over $700 billion.
This seems like a large amount, but given the Fed's balance sheet, this was over $4 trillion.
The Fed only reduced its holdings by approximately 18%.
If such a relatively small reduction in the Fed's assets contributed to the cash shortage in the repo market, causing a panicked Fed to pump billions of dollars into the market, it is unlikely the Fed will be continuing selling assets and normalizing its balance sheet.
Another factor contributing to the repo market's cash shortage was a major sale of U.S. Treasury securities.
Sales of government securities leave less capital available for the private sector investments, increasing interest rates.
This crowding out effect provides one more justification for the Federal Reserve to pump more money into the markets.
The crowding out effect is just one way federal debt increases pressure on the Fed to keep interest rates low.
Federal Debt Pressures Fed 00:01:54
Increasing federal debt increases pressure on the Fed to maintain low interest rates to keep the federal government's interest payments from reaching unsustainable levels.
The over $1 trillion and rising federal deficit is the major reason the Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates low or even adopt the insane policy of negative interest rates.
The American people are not even allowed to know what banks benefited from the Fed's intervention in the repo market or what plans the Fed is making for future bailouts, even though the people will pay for those bailouts either through increased taxes, debt, or the Federal Reserve's hidden inflation tax when the next crash comes.
Of course, the average person who will lose their savings and their jobs in the next crash will not be bailed out.
This is one more reason why it is so important Congress takes the first steps toward changing monetary policy by passing Audit the Fed.
The need for the Fed to shove billions of dollars into the repo market to keep that market's interest rates near the Fed's target shows the Fed is losing its power to control the price of money.
The next crash will likely lead to the end of the fiat monetary system, along with the entire welfare warfare state.
Those of us who understand the Fed is the cause of, not the solution to, our problems, must redouble our efforts to educate our fellow citizens on sound economics and the ideas of liberty.
This way, we can create the critical mass necessary to force Congress to cut spending, repeal the legal tender laws to create a free market in money, and audit the Fed and then end the Fed.
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