Fed Buys $587 Billion in Bonds in Past Week, 2.7% of GDP, Just as Foreign Central Banks Start to Liquidate

from Zero Hedge

Having moved from “Not QE” (or QE4 as it was correctly called), to the $750BN QE5 which came and went with the blink of an eye, to the Fed’s open-ended and unlimited QEnfinity in the span of one week, the full “shock and awe” of the Fed’s money printer is now on full display, and in just the past week, from March 19 to March 25, the Fed has purchased $587BN in securities ($375BN in TSYs, $212BN in MBS), or roughly 2.7% of the $21.4TN in US GDP.

[…] This means that as of Wednesday close, when accounting for last week’s repo operations, the Fed’s balance sheet has increased by roughly $650BN, bringing it to just over $5.3 trillion, an increase of $1.2 trillion in the past two week, or roughly 5.6% of US GDP.

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