Quote from Mvic:
Is anyone else getting the feeling that this whole green shoots rally has been about letting the banks and the smart connected money get out before we head to the real bottom.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/american-trucking-association-tonnage-index/
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-loans9-2009jun09,0,329853.story?page=1
So the Fed bought back some $1.5-8 Trillion treasury debt(hard to know for sure but it is at least that) to bring rates down and how many refis have their been in 2009? At most 120K... out of 44M mortgages! A massive fail.
The Fed has bought back a lot less than that. They've bought some 500B of agency bonds and something like 150B or so of treasuries ... you can find out pretty easily by going to the Fed's site.
http://accruedint.blogspot.com/2009/06/smackdown-week-now-consumers-are-all.html has some decent info on this as well.
Why doesn't the Fed just say to the increasingly clamorous chorus in congress who are demanding an audit: " Hey, just go to our web site, its all there and accurate", instead they feel the need to hire people like Robertson to desperately avoid such scrutiny.