by They are doing this again, same as last time at QE2.... Mike explained it here 10 years ago here....Why are they doing this? To lower rates? Yo rates are GOING UP.... To provide Reserves that banks can “lend out”? Yo you are reifying accounting abstractions idiots...Here’s Mike FROM 10 YEARS AGO you morons: The Fed is buying "scale down" and in effect, causing the selloff. They're doing this because they're fixated on quantity (0 bln) as opposed to price (interest rate). I remember when I was a floor trader. I had clients in the oil business--big firms--who would sometimes want to protect a certain price. They'd give me an order that would be, "Buy 100 (crude), 'worst.'" That meant buy it up...aggressively. When Japan used to actively intervene in FX markets, they wouldn't scale
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They are doing this again, same as last time at QE2.... Mike explained it here 10 years ago here....
Why are they doing this? To lower rates? Yo rates are GOING UP....
To provide Reserves that banks can “lend out”? Yo you are reifying accounting abstractions idiots...
Here’s Mike FROM 10 YEARS AGO you morons:
The Fed is buying "scale down" and in effect, causing the selloff. They're doing this because they're fixated on quantity ($600 bln) as opposed to price (interest rate). I remember when I was a floor trader. I had clients in the oil business--big firms--who would sometimes want to protect a certain price. They'd give me an order that would be, "Buy 100 (crude), 'worst.'" That meant buy it up...aggressively. When Japan used to actively intervene in FX markets, they wouldn't scale down their dollar buying (or sell yen scale up), they'd buy dollars aggressively to put the USD/JPY exchange rate to a certain level. The Fed is not doing this. By signaling to the market that they will buy scale down, they are actually creating this selloff as nervous longs look to sell before the largest buyer lowers its bid again and as speculative shorts compete for a better price.
Fed initiates major asset purchases and they do this..... EVERY...F*CKING......TIME.....
They never learn....
Bonds probably bottom once there is a MAJOR fiscal response that increases UST issuance rate commensurate with what Fed is now buying every day....
