Fed Discloses No New Liquidity Swaps, Lies About Value Of Maiden Lane I-III
Courtesy of Tyler Durden
Yesterday, the Fed disclosed that liquidity swaps have remained at 0 for the eleventh week in a row. This is not unexpected, as it is in line with the Fed’s statement of eliminating emergency liquidity facilities (and the CB liquidity swap lines are among these). Of course, there is no way to truly verify whether or not the Fed is syphoning off US money to once again bail out foreign central banks as the Fed is shrouded in secrecy, and while we have to figure out just what exchange Bernie Sanders concluded with Chris Dodd, on the surface we are disappointed that the socialist is not sticking with his initial much stronger language for Fed transparency. Furthermore, we know all too well that the Fed would never lie to the US population, right – just look at the chart below, which discloses the Fed-determined values of Maiden Lane I-III. Somehow, the combined value of these three Bear/AIG rescue facilities have surged to one year highs in the last week. This is somewhat stunning as we reported a week ago that the Fed is about to be crammed down on its Red Roof portfolio holdings due to initiatied foreclosure proceedings. We have not figured out why REITs have been defying gravity for the past year – according to the Fed and the FASB, foreclosures are now a valuation enhancing process. How could we be so blind not to realize this.
We are confident that in however many years, when all the Fed’s secret machinations and transactions are finally brought to light, the amount of criminality that will be uncovered will likely create a brand new class of lawyer – the Federal Reserve Litigation class action specialist – minimum amount for class eligibility, $1 quadrillion (this, of course, after the dollar devaluation event of 2012).
