The Fed Has 233 Secret Documents About JPMorgan’s Potential Role in the Repo Loan Crisis

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors has acknowledged to Wall Street On Parade that it has 233 documents that might shed some light on why JPMorgan Chase was allowed by the Fed to draw down $158 billion of the reserves it held at the Fed last year, creating a liquidity crisis in the overnight loan market according to sources on Wall Street. After taking four months to respond to what should have been a 20-business day turnaround on our Freedom of Information Act request, the Federal Reserve denied our FOIA in its entirety. (Our earlier request to the New York Fed resulted in the same kind of stonewalling. See The New York Fed Is Keeping JPMorgan’s Secrets Close to Its Chest.)

The Wall Street liquidity crisis forced the Federal Reserve, beginning on September 17 of last year, to begin making tens of billions of dollars in loans each business day to the trading houses on Wall Street.

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