By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: March 12, 2020 ~ Making the most unprecedented announcement in the history of Wall Street, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced today that it will be offering $500 billion in 3-month repo loans to its primary dealers (Wall Street trading firms) today at 1:30 p.m. That $500 billion comes on top of the $198.10 billion the New York Fed loaned the street in its morning repo operations. Tomorrow, the New York Fed said it will offer its primary dealers another $500 billion in a 3-month loan and another $500 billion in a one-month loan, bringing the two-day total to potentially more than $1.7 trillion being offered at super low interest rates. (The Fed will also offer its regular one-day loan of $175 billion tomorrow.) These are staggering, unprecedented sums being offered by the Fed while it simultaneously claims that the Wall Street … Continue reading Federal Reserve Announces Unprecedented $1.5 Trillion in Loans to Wall Street Today and Tomorrow