Thursday, November 15, 2012

Agency MBS Historical Operational Results and Planned Purchase Amounts

As ghastly high as the Fed's plans are to purchase mortgage-backed securities as part of QE, the actual purchases are twice as high. Don't believe me?  Check the New York Fed's own data:

http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/ambs/ambs_schedule.html

The problem with unlimited QE and Operation Twist is eventually, there isn't enough debt for the Fed to purchase--they will have run out of things to buy.  Then what?  Well, print more, of course...

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