Bman69 wrote:Question for the board. How does the Fed buying $40B/month of MBS help? Banks are able to sell mtgs to agency already and banks have plenty of capital to hold non-conforming loans in portfolio. I work for a bank, there is more money available than we can lend "responsibly". So how does this Fed move actually help?
thanks
The Fed move is not intended to "actually help" the economy or employment.
The move is to increase the profits of big banks in two ways:
1. To reduce the losses they would have to take on bad paper if this were a free market
2. To increase their Investment banking profits through speculation and underwritings.
The Fed is a primarily owned by private banks and was established to protect their interests.
None of the money pumped into the system since 2008 was for the economy. It was for big banks.
It is using public money to pay off bad private debts of the banks.
5 trillion has been added to the US national debt since 2008(?)
"As of September 2012, debt held by the public was approximately $11.27 trillion or about 72% of GDP; intra-governmental holdings stood at $4.74 trillion, giving a combined total public debt of $16.02 trillion[4][5] [6]" -wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_national_debt
This video might help
The banking cartel, its supporter (the Fed), and money creation:
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.sw ... 70450%26hl
There are approximately 154.4 million employed individuals in the US.
If you took the same 5trillion dollars and deposited it into IRA accounts for all those earning less than say 100,000 in a bank owned the US govt _ that is not a commercial bank - This would be a $50,000 IRA for each person (using 100 million employed). Individuals could borrow against their IRA for small business loans - the interest paid to the US govt - create local jobs and incomes and work towards restoring the jobs that have been exported to other countries with low wages and low environmental laws. This would stimulus the economy and help the millions without work.
\This would be public money to the public not public money to the big banks.