From ZeroHedge
''Over the past 4 years the Fed's strategy in response to the Second Great
Depression has been a simple one: purchase record (and now open-ended)
amounts of fixed income product (offset by releasing record amounts of
reserves in the banking universe which in turn has converted every bank
into a TBTF and Fed-backstopped hedge fund, as the concurrently
shrinking Net Interest Margin no longer leads to the required ROA from
legacy bank lending) to stabilize the bond market, and to crush yields
in hopes of forcing every uninvested dollar to scramble for equities,
primarily of the dividend paying kind now that dividend income is the
only "fixed income" available.''
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