Thursday, October 2, 2008

The Federal Reserve Is About To Engage In The Greatest Money Supply Inflation In Its History

Up until now, the Federal Reserve has been sterilizing its bailout activities by either loaning out or selling Treasury securities that it has had in its portfolio, to match the bailouts activities it has been conducting. In the last 52 weeks, the Feds portfolio of Treasury securities has declined by $303 billion and stands at $476 billion. But, commercial banks and bond dealers, just in the last seven days, borrowed $348.2 billion from the Federal Reserve as of yesterday.

If the Fed attempts to sterilize these borrowings it will be down to $128 billion in its portfolio. If it does sterilize the borrowings, in a day or two with only $128 billion in Treasury securities left, and more borrowing likely, the Fed would be forced to print money, as they would have run out of Treasury securities for further sterilization operations. Either way, it is likely the Fed will start printing money at unheard of rates.

Indeed, they may have already started. According to the latest data, during the week ended September 22, the Fed increased the money supply by nearly $100 billion.

We may be about to experience the greatest inflation the United States has experienced since the Civil War. Gold could break above $1,000 an ounce in record time. You have been warned.

-Robert Wenzel

1 comment:

  1. You are a clown. You have no idea what you are talking about. Go read a book on monetary policy.

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