John Rubino - Beware of the Fed Repo Man #4503

Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 1 p.m.

Debt keeps on increasing at increasing rates. That should be good news for the repo market. And yet, Fed's Repo man is in a quandary. How could chaos reign in a stodgy market that's been around since 1917. The premise is simple. Buy securities to loosen liquidity. Sell securities to tighten liquidity. But Houston, we have a problem. This market broke down and no one has really explained why. That's what happens in an over indebted society. Markets breakdown, almost at random.