by Outcast_Searcher » Mon 23 Sep 2019, 15:19:06
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', ' ')The repo rate is staying stubbornly up despite the Fed dumping in billions every night.
https://www.marketscreener.com/news/Sau ... -29239982/Except that, NO, if you look at the Fed data instead of just making stuff up, it's not.
https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/aut ... 01/01/2000When you look at the actual Fed operations, both the average rate and the high rate are consistently BELOW 2% since the first operation on 9/18. And the rates are calming down, with even the highs below 1.9%.
So the averages and the highs are looking like what I get in my government money market accounts and my "high yield" savings accounts -- not the alarming levels that were occurring 9/17 and 9/18.
It's reasonable to ask what's going on and why the Fed feels it needs to keep having large daily repos after the crisis has supposedly passed. (I imagine an abundance of caution, but the fact they feel they need that still can't be a good thing).
It's NOT reasonable to just make stuff up and try to tie that into false conspiracy theories, but of course, that is frequently what fast crash doomers do, over and over again.
The thing is, when they do it often enough, they lose all credibility.
There are enough Starving Lion types around here. How about having reasonable conversations based on facts (as documented by credible sources)?
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.