The Fed Has Pumped $500 Billion Into the Repo Market. Where Does It End?

When the dam looks ready to break

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Fighting a Losing Battle: Federal Reserve Prints Another $63.5B This Week

The repo rate made the headlines again at the end of September. The overnight general collateral repo rate jumped about 1% during the weekend, from 1. 85% on Friday to 2. 8% on Monday. The Fed now has to inject billions to keep the market under control.

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Wyoming Blockchain Leader: Repo Market Crashing Testifies to Bitcoin’s Stability

Last week, the US repo market experienced something akin to a bank run. The median repo repurchase rate of the US Treasuries skyrocketed from 2. 00-2. 25% to 2. 46% on Monday, and a whopping 5. 25% on Tuesday.

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Repo Market Meltdown Shows Bitcoin’s ‘Systemic’ Stability: Caitlin Long

Bitcoin is systemically more stable than traditional finance, argues Wyoming Blockchain Coalition president Caitlin Long in the wake of the recent repo market unrest

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Did US FED Repo Transactions Cause Bitcoin Price Crash?

Whenever Bitcoin prices fall off the cliff industry observers scramble to find a reason beyond the technical indicators. Something fundamental must have caused the crash and one industry executive has fingered the FED’s recent market meddling.

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What Billions in Fed Repo Injections Reveal About the Promise of Bitcoin

The Fed Reserve has injected $278 billion injection into the securities repurchase market. Mike J. Casey Looks at what it means for crypto.

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Fed Goes Crazy, Will Continue to Pump Billions Every Day till Oct 14

The New York Federal Reserve will continue its overnight repurchase (repo) operations through October as its attempt to soothe market instability from earlier this week. Short term rates spiked as much as 10% overnight Monday amidst a shortfall in funding.

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Surging Repo Market Rates May Signal Another 2008 Economic Meltdown

The repo market has been grabbing the headlines lately. That’s because this little-known but vital aspect of the U. S. financial system is under duress. The situation has forced the U. S. Federal Reserve to step in for the first time since the global financial crisis of 2008.

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Get Ready For Bitcoin’s Jump to $20,000, Says Arthur Hayes As Fed Injects Billions In Market To Steady Rates

The Federal Reserve of New York took an unusual step as it announced that it will conduct its first overnight repo operation of up to $75 billion for the first time in a decade. The US fed auctioned $53.

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