Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2015 13:44 -0500
Back on February 7, 2009, one month before the Fed unveiled its massive (for its time) first episode of Quantitative Easing, the Federal Reserve was flailing. And, as revealed today by the latest annual batch of Fed transcript releases, precisely one month before the Fed commenced monetizing tens of billions in government debt and MBS, Bernanke held perhaps the longest conference call in the Fed’s history (the transcript alone is 65 pages) in which he revealed that he was working on something entirely different: an “aggregator bank” concept, which would have been essentially a quasi-nationalization of the US banks whereby Fed funds is commingled with the bank’s capital in order to avert public attention from the trillions of bad assets on the bank books.
It is during the discussion of this plan, which mysteriously disappeared from the Fed’s plan of action between February 7 and a month later, when America set off on its path from which 7 years later it is still unable to ween itself (and in fact now everyone else is also pursuing QE), that we learn for a fact precisely what most have suspect if not known for a fact, namely that the resulting “bailout” of the US economy by way of QE was nothing more than a way to keep bank shareholders “thrilled.”
From the February 7 transcript:
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