Quote from scriabinop23:
A lot of players would have to keep silent to rig the data to cover up such a fraud. This is a world where even inside traders like Galleon can't make money with their bribes. If you think the Fed is doing some backdoor funding mechanism, I suggest that would be a skillful coverup. More than skillful. Epic. Moon landing epic.
Besides, the data I've showed you already demonstrate there was more than enough fund flows (and source of funds) to absorb all of last year's debt. Your suggestion is really not relevant in the face of much better data. When the Fed openly buys 300B, banks openly increase their treasury holdings (as counted by FDIC) by 50B, foreigners buy 500B, you only have a 450B gap. Then when you count all of the sources of demand and fund inflows (396B in bond funds alone, 1T of cash equiv on US corp balance sheets [fortune 500 only, not including all other businesses, private as well], etc) it becomes pretty obvious that last year's numbers balance out pretty well, no conspiracy necessary.
The fact that the oversight committees and Fed audit organizations have no idea what is going on, and quote Bloomberg journalists that count notional exposures of "insurance agreements" as a worthwhile source is completely immaterial to this discussion. (yes, those off balance sheet positions are immaterial, because they do not represent the real flow of funds. Its kind of like saying we are 43T in debt right now because medicare is unfunded. Simply not true, as 1 act of congress can destroy the medicare program and eliminate that 43T of debt. So I ask you, was that 43T of "debt" ever "debt"? [no, it wasn't. because it was never lent nor borrowed.]).