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$336.9408 billion as of 4/19 ($2,144 billion so far…): An update on the tools the Fed is using to give banks liquidity while ‘we’ get Inflation & Rate Hikes: Discount Window, Central Bank Liquidity Swaps, Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), “Other credit extensions”, & “Foreign Official”

by Dismal-Jellyfish This week’s Fed balance Sheet: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20230420/ What we are monitoring: Discount Window/Primary Credit Central Bank Liquidity Swaps Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) “Other credit extensions” “Foreign Official” ​ Tool 3/15 3/22 3/29 4/5 4/12 4/19 Discount Window/Primary Credit …

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Not a ‘bailout’! $388.2475 billion in liquidity: A review of the tools the Fed is leveraging to provide banks liquidity while we get rate hikes: Discount Window, Central Bank Liquidity Swaps, Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), “Other credit extensions”, and “Foreign Official”.

by Dismal-Jellyfish This week’s Fed balance Sheet: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20230330/ What we are monitoring: Discount Window/Primary Credit Central Bank Liquidity Swaps Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) “Other credit extensions” “Foreign Official” Tool 3/15 3/22 3/29 Discount Window/Primary Credit $152.85 billion $110.248 billion …

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FBI is using counterterrorism tools to investigate and “threat tag” American parents. This contradicts Attorney General Garland’s sworn testimony.

by Settlemente Source. “Garland defends decision to mobilize FBI agents against threats to school board members. : The attorney general also rejected the characterization that he was labeling parents as domestic terrorists and trying to silence their concerns. Instead, he said, this …

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Michael Pento: The Fed’s Tools Are Broken

From Pento Portfolio Strategies:  The U.S. central bank has metastasized from an institution that was originally designed to assist distressed banks, to one that believes its purview now includes perpetuating asset bubbles, fighting global warming and reconciling racial inequities. Another …

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Former Facebook exec: “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. You are being programmed”

During his View From The Top talk, Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of Social Capital, discussed how money is an instrument of change which should be used to make the world a better place. “Money drives the world for better …

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