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Pam and Russ Martens: Fed sets up for its next Wall Street bailout

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Last Friday, with the public's attention diverted to the surge in Omicron variant cases of COVID in the U.S. and holiday travelers' attention focused on the safety of air travel and family gatherings, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York quietly announced, in a one-sentence statement, that it was adding the following three federally-insured banks to its list of counterparties for its newly-minted $500 billion Standing Repo Facility: 

Citibank, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, and the New York Branch of Mizuho Bank.

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Company Announcement
From Kinesis, London
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

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If you're stunned that Goldman Sachs is allowed to own a federally-insured bank under existing U.S. law, see our previous report: "Goldman Sachs' Rich Man's Bank is Backstopped by You and Me."

If you're stunned that a New York branch of Mizuho Bank, part of the Japanese conglomerate Mizuho Financial Group, is able to have federal deposit insurance backstopped by the U.S. taxpayer, welcome to the world of borderless global banking for the 1%.

These three banks have a number of things in common: 1) each financial institution already has a broker-dealer affiliate that is already one of the Fed's 24 primary dealers that participates in the Fed's repo operations; 2) each of the three banks' primary dealer affiliates took large, secret loans from the Fed's repo facility when credit collapsed on Wall Street on September 17, 2019; 3) all three institutions have trillions of dollars in exposure to derivatives according to data from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/12/the-fed-gets-its-ducks-in-a-row-for-the-next-wall-street-bailout-quietly-adds-goldman-sachs-bank-citibank-to-its-new-500-billion-standing-repo-facility/

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