The end is nigh: Fed creates and buys its own debt.

The private member banks of the “Federal Reserve” system control the issuance of US currency.  They’re stealthily buying back a significant portion of the fake currency they just created, one week after creating it, presumably collecting interest on this “investment.”

One must wonder what happens when this snake that is eating its own tail gets to the head?  This may be an all-time record  for financial quackery.

Via: Chris Martenson/Cryptogon:

Just last week, when the auction results were announced it was trumpeted to great fanfare that there was “more than sufficient” bid-to-cover, “strong demand” and all the rest.

And now it turns out that 47% (!) of the bonds that were taken by the primary dealers in that auction have been quietly bought by the Fed and permanently secreted to its balance sheet.

They didn’t even wait a full week! A more honest and open approach would have been for the Fed to simply buy them outright at the auction but this way, using “primary dealers” and “POMOs” and all these other extra steps the basic fact that the Fed is openly monetizing US government debt is effectively hidden from a not-too-terribly inquisitive US press and public.

The speed of the shell game is accelerating.

This immediate repurchase of newly auction bonds by the Fed tells us that demand for these bonds is not nearly as high as advertised, and that things are not quite as strong as represented.

And oh, by the way, don’t expect any stock market weakness while so many billions are being shoveled out the Fed and into the pockets of the primary dealers. They’ll have to do something with all that freshly minted cash…..