20190920-Permanent Repo Madness Going Forward?


WallStForMainSt(Permanent Repo Madness Going Forward?

-Repo is short for repurchase agreements.  It is like a pawn shop where big institutional investors gets emergency fund by borrowing money (usually overnight) from Fed using their treasury bonds as collaterals.

-The difference between repo and quantitative easing is that banks are expected to repurchase back the collaterals that they put up with Fed.   But quantitative easing is just Fed turning on the printing machine.  

-In the 2007, before the 2008 Lehman Brothers debt crisis, the Fed was not lending out good collateral.   It was actually lending out toxic bonds and derivatives collaterals from the banks.   These toxic bonds and derivatives were never repurchased back.   After the repo deal, the Fed proceeded with QE and then the 2008 crisis followed.

-In the past 4 days, 300 billion worth of emergency liquidity (repo) was injected in the system.  It seems like there is a problem with liquidity and the Fed is considering a permanent open market operation (making repo permanent) and QE that might restart in November.

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