Michael Burry called out the Federal Reserve for not shrinking its balance sheet as much as planned in June, comparing its failure to resist stimulating the economy to a drug addiction.
“Drugs are hard to kick,” Burry said in a now-deleted tweet. “Fed was supposed to sell $30B Treasuries and $17.5B Mortgage-Backed Securities per month starting June 1. QT.”
“During June, MBS holdings rose almost $3B. Treasury holdings fell less than $10B,” the investor of “The Big Short” fame added.
Burry’s tweet refers to the Fed’s plan to reduce security holdings by up to $30 billion worth of Treasuries and $17.5 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities each month, with deeper cuts to follow. However, the central bank managed less than one-third of its Treasuries target in June, and actually added $3 billion of mortgage-backed securities to its stockpile.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues recently started hiking interest rates and reducing its balance sheet in order to curb rampant inflation, but at least in Burry’s view, their quantitative tightening (QT) has fallen short so far.
Burry has heaped criticism on the Fed in recent months. In June, he blasted the central bank for being ignorant of history, given it had seemingly overlooked the risk that aggressively stimulating the economy during the pandemic would spark inflation.
In April, the Scion Asset Management boss claimed the Fed wasn’t interested in curbing inflation; it was tightening to give itself room to cut rates and expand its balance sheet if equities and consumer spending collapsed.
“The Fed’s all about reloading the monetary bazooka,” Burry tweeted at the time. “Serial half-point hikes are for getting elevation before stocks and the consumer tap out. Same with rapid-fire QT.”
Most damningly, Burry warned in September that investors have lost all faith in the Fed. He cited its mishandling of the global financial crisis, its decision to slash rates three times when the economy was booming in 2019, and reports that two of its regional presidents had traded individual stocks and other securities in 2020.
“Bond & stock markets depend on a Fed stripped of all credibility,” he wrote.
Burry shot to fame after his billion-dollar bet against the mid-2000s housing bubble was chronicled in the book and the movie, “The Big Short.” He’s also known for his dire predictions of bubbles bursting and markets crashing, his investment in GameStop before the meme-stock craze took off, and his wagers against Elon Musk’s Tesla and Cathie Wood’s flagship Ark fund last year.
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Bullshit….the FED will fall on its sword when ordered to.
The intentional controlled demolition of the US and the West by TLPTB (L=Luciferian) grinds on.
Click on to enlarge and see the best rendering I have ever seen about who these ORCs and flying Monkeys really are, and how they are connected.
TLPTB Organization Chart:
What does Jesus think about the second Tower of Babel???
“Stimulus” is running the fiat money press even faster.
We are in a government caused financial death spiral.
Plan accordingly and ammo up. None of us sane people voted for this insanity.
When the feral niggers and other parasites don’t get their fiat money cards, and
no food gets delivered into their shit holes, when it all inevitably falls apart,
they will pour out of them and do what niggers and societal parasites always do
when their free shit is denied them.
Be mentally prepared to defend everything you hold dear.
Ruthlessly.
Many years ago, a co-worker went on a bear hunt and successfully harvested a smallish black bear. He had pictures and brought some BBQ bear to work to share. Our shop clean up guy was an old black man who had been there since they built the building. The old guy asked Tommy how he could shoot such a cute animal and without missing a beat, Tommy replied “I just thought of it as a little nigger and pulled the trigger.” That is being mentally prepared.
OH boy Tommy was a bad ass. Said “Nigger” to an old man. Mentally prepared or mentally retarded? I think the old black man would have been a better friend than your boyfriend Tommy.
Colorado we both have been here a long time…I am a Born Again Christian with a new heart…so my former ruthlessness and:
• affectless
• callous
• case-hardened
• cold-blooded
• compassionless
• desensitized
• hard
• hard-boiled
• hard-hearted
• heartless
• indurate
• inhuman
• inhumane
• insensate
• insensitive
• iron hearted
• merciless
• obdurate
• pachydermatous
• pitiless
• remorseless
• slash-and-burn
• soulless
• stony
• stonyhearted
• take-no-prisoners
• thick-skinned
• uncharitable
• unfeeling
• unmerciful
• unsparing
• unsympathetic
Has been laid down at the foot of the cross…with a lot of other baggage.
Now, that being said I know you know I am also a serious prepper, live on an intentional rural farm/compound, and like you have a family to lead, protect, and defend…with no illusions about what is coming or intentions to go quietly into the night.
I probably have more ammo then the closest town’s 9 person police force…and from what I can tell more real combat experience than any of them…possibly all of them combined.
I am also reminded of this verse as far as the above:
Ezekiel 36:26: – I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
And this one for what is coming:
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I have 16 people I have been prepping for…5 men, 4 women, 2 boys and 5 girls.
Best to you and your 3 sons!
Trust Jesus …. and guns, just in case.
Silly Pwainfield wrabbit…everyone knows Jesus just uses the Sword of the Spirit…
But I do have two cases of paperback Bibles in my prep for what is coming…
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The US government does not have $9 trillion to buy what Powell bought with book-entry bogus credit [government money that was never in a government account ?] from private banks to save them [covert owners of the Fed ?] and is now claiming the Treasuries belong to an unidentified private party [if the gov owned them, how would Powell demand payment ?]. https://genzconservative.com/the-federal-reserve-for-dummies/
Powell has recently announced the Fed is going to “roll off” Fed assets which will retire them. The only way to retire national debt is to sell it to the government. The Fed can do this without even asking the government for the funds. The FRBNY, as fiscal agent for the government, has exclusive authority for disbursement of government funds from auctions of Treasury securities, and to any related operation they wish to claim. Ref. 31 USC 375.3. Administrative and regulatory supervision of the FRBNY franchise is vested in the FRBOG, Inc. Instruction by Powell to buy securities held by the BOG would be no big deal. If funds to redeem maturing securities in the market run short, well, times are tough all over. The Fed comes first. It just requires more deficit spending. It makes no difference that the assets were generated as a book-entry credit for the Fed. Such an easy way to crash the economy, bankrupt the Nation, and make it look like Congress did it.
The Fed created $16 Trillion in the QE1 and QE2 actions after 2007 with book-entry credit to save four Primary Dealer entities that are alleged shareholders of FRBOG, Inc. from bankruptcy from derivative gambling.1
$16 Trillion was clear profit for the Fed that inflated value in circulation by purchasing Treasury securities and Mortgage Backed Securities from financial entities. The government received no benefit or consideration from that action. That the PD’s may have sat on the credit rather than circulate it for several years only delayed the inflationary action. All profit of the Fed legally belongs to the government but the government received no benefit from this action.
Book entry QE1 and QE2 were clear profit for the Fed that inflated value in circulation. It was as much a counterfeit operation as if I printed Bennies on my copy machine. Now Powell is going to sell $9 trillion of these stolen assets on the Fed’s balance sheet to the government and call it ‘roll off’ ? We can be assured the value will be covertly transferred to the PD owners of the Fed. Ref.
THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM.
This claim by Powell should raise some eyebrows. If the Fed is operating as a government agency, the $16 trillion they created would be a government asset. If it was used to buy Treasury securities or MBS, those assets would be government assets. But Powell plans to sell the securities to the government. The MBS, apparently purchased by a private entity, have already disappeared. The statement is clear evidence Powell considers the securities and claims on real estate that were purchased to be private assets owned by a private [corporate] business possibly owned by PD shareholders. If the $16 trillion book-entry purchase is a valid exercise of the Fed, Congress should be able to instruct the Fed to create an additional $14, or $34, trillion book entry and negate the entire National Debt. Such a confiscation of wealth would not be casually accepted.
The tightening of money from retiring securities seems eerily similar to what the Fed did on 1929. Call loans were repeatedly demanded to be paid immediately which stopped construction and inventory expansion. The crash was instrumental in flushing gold from storage and did not stop until war was declared. When the Fed squeezes the economy, the affect is multiplied by the commercial banks.
An alternate rescue plan to rescue the Fed involves use of the Fed’s new Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV) program to sell securities to the Treasury Department (read Stephen Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs) to procrastinate bankruptcy of Wall Street banks. It will apparently additionally balloon the national debt but will be used to avoid bankruptcy of Wall Street banks and their cronies. 2 Blackrock, allegedly owned by insiders, is central to the scam. 3 Unrelenting access to government funds, while the tax base is destroyed by compelled national unemployment and corporate bankruptcies by a created virus 4, is a textbook recipe for insolvency.
If the scheme is not altered, Wall Street internal memos identify the “ultimate goal” is to collect on the $24 trillion National Debt.5 During national bankruptcy, the FRBNY will handle redemption of the PD’s tendered securities they have purchased in the market for pennies. They will demand face value from the U.S. Treasury; i.e., a financial rape of the nation. They are all one clan. Hello Greece and a U.S. troika controlled by financial entities.6
It appears as if Larry Kudlow, Director of the United States National Economic Council, has conceded control of the Treasury has passed to Wall Street to complete the coup.7
Now that is what I call an amazing explanation of:
(Been scamming a lot longer – but it’s the best meme I could find)
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Really that was intriguing…but will go over most heads. I have been trying since the 90’s…people’s eyes glaze over, and getting most to read a book on it is impossible.
One of the greatest problems is explaining the fiat FED con in language Joe Six Pack and Jane Amazon can understand, then getting it to them…then getting them to do something besides just shrug.
Maybe when they are eating cat food in the dark they might figure it out???
The Fed has embezzled $30 trillion since 1913. It has bought equity control of all Fortune 500 companies in Blackrock, etc, funded the IMF’s domination of nations, and caused perpetual war with profit that belonged to the government.
reb,
I’m with you buddy, have been posting against the FED here since 2015…and talking, posting on the net against the FED since the mid 90’s.
I have done everything I can to explain ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’ to all my family and all my friends. I have made some progress within my circle…and a nephew (who I love like a son) was just visiting with his family, he not only is a long term macro stacker because of me (I gave him a $280 dollar ounce of Gold as wedding present a long time ago and he still has it) but he has influenced many others.
Your post was excellent…but it will just glaze the eyes of the average American…that is not your fault…that is theirs.
It has to be explained in a 5th grade reading level and then hammered home through the media…and that is not going to happen.
You seem to have overlooked the other ways “to retire [real, not notional] national debt”,
which are default (not going to happen in this case) and inflating it away.
The National debt can never be retired; it is a Ponzi scheme. Every ‘dollar’ [principle] is created on the books of the Fed by a deficit spending Treasury security being received. The superficial obligation is that the security will be redeemed in the future along with interest being paid. The interest has never been created–it does not exist. The only way to perpetuate the scam is to create more ‘dollars’ [principle] to pay the interest due. Bankruptcy of the scam is inherent when the public refuses to buy more debt.to re
On top of that, the Fed since 2008 created bogus $16 trillion starting with QE’s by book-entry to save the Wall Street bankers/owners of the Fed from bankruptcy. The government got no part of it. Read WallStreetonparade.com.
It will be “retired.”
By the dollar becoming entirely worthless. 200 trillion times zero is still zero, et voila: zero debt.
You overlook currency is credit of the Federal Reserve system; i.e., FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE The Fed has created $16 trillion in book-entry money since 2008 to rescue the owner-of-the-fed banks from default, read wallstreetonparade.com. The US government cannot do that. The Fed is owned by WS bankers. Ref. https://genzconservative.com/the-federal-reserve-for-dummies/
After the Fed made book-entry money to buy securities from the banks, Powell declared the Fed was going to ‘roll-off’ securities by selling them to the government. If the ‘money’ created by the Fed was government money, the government would already own the securities.
The securities will becomes worthless too, unless there is real collateral behind them.
(And yes, I am aware that the Fed and others were/are able to buy real collateral with essentially fake dollars, but that is not the question we were discussing here.)
have you discussed that mathematics with any Greek ??
The national debt has to be retired through payment at the expense of the productive American public. Debt already exceeds 100% of the faked GDP and will literally take years to pay off. The national debt in dollars isn’t going to be paid off, it’s going to be written off in worthless dollars with accounting tricks, then a new currency will be instituted and the Game will continue.
Federal Reserve and their Inflation Expectations. “Stupid is as Stupid Does!”
“and $17.5B Mortgage-Backed Securities” 😂
SHOULD be an example of an Oxymoron:
[ˌäksəˈmôrˌän]
NOUN
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).
As it relates to other posts…
It was Henry Ford who said in substance this: ‘It is perhaps well enough that the people of the nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning’.
Did Henry Ford predict revolution if people understood the banking …
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18247/did-henry-ford-predict-revolution-if-people-understood-the-banking-and-monetary#:~:text=It%20was%20Henry%20Ford%20who%20said%20in%20substance,there%20would%20be%20a%20revolution%20before%20tomorrow%20morning%27.
The account
captures all of Michael Burry’s tweets since he always deletes them.