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🚨 “The Fed is printing billions again?!” Curbing the hype around $4.243 billion from FRBNY
The X (Twitter) and Telegram feeds are once again showing loud headlines: “The New York Fed is pouring billions into the market!”. The reason is the planned auction of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to buy short-term Treasury bills (T-Bills) for exactly $4.243 billion.
Let's figure it out without emotions and crypto panic: what is really happening?
🛠 What is this operation?
This is a standard planned procedure within the framework of Reserve Management Purchases.
The Fed buys bills from primary dealers, crediting them with cash. Technically, it does add liquidity to the banking system, but...
❌ Why it is NOT a “new printing press” or QE:
1. It is not Quantitative Easing: There is no emergency measure or “market rescue” involved. This is routine maintenance to keep short-term market rates (Repo / SOFR) stable and banks have enough reserves.
2. Scale matters: $4.243 billion for the US macro market is small pennies. To put it in perspective: the monthly volume of the Fed’s balance sheet is measured in tens of billions of dollars, and the total balance sheet is measured in trillions.
3. It is not a driver for a runner rally: Crypto and stock market traders often take the exact numbers from the FRBNY schedule and hype them up as “a huge infusion of liquidity that will send $BTC /SPX into space.” This is a classic clickbait.
⚠️ Investor Summary
Do not confuse technical preventive maintenance of the monetary system plumbing with a reversal of the Fed's macroeconomic policy.
‼️ Conclusion: The operation is routine, liquidity is technical, there is no reason for FOMO. We trade the trend, not the schedule of technical auctions! 📉📈
🚨 “The Fed is printing billions again?!” Curbing the hype around $4.243 billion from FRBNY
The X (Twitter) and Telegram feeds are once again showing loud headlines: “The New York Fed is pouring billions into the market!”. The reason is the planned auction of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to buy short-term Treasury bills (T-Bills) for exactly $4.243 billion.
Let's figure it out without emotions and crypto panic: what is really happening?
🛠 What is this operation?
This is a standard planned procedure within the framework of Reserve Management Purchases.
The Fed buys bills from primary dealers, crediting them with cash. Technically, it does add liquidity to the banking system, but...
❌ Why it is NOT a “new printing press” or QE:
1. It is not Quantitative Easing: There is no emergency measure or “market rescue” involved. This is routine maintenance to keep short-term market rates (Repo / SOFR) stable and banks have enough reserves.
2. Scale matters: $4.243 billion for the US macro market is small pennies. To put it in perspective: the monthly volume of the Fed’s balance sheet is measured in tens of billions of dollars, and the total balance sheet is measured in trillions.
3. It is not a driver for a runner rally: Crypto and stock market traders often take the exact numbers from the FRBNY schedule and hype them up as “a huge infusion of liquidity that will send $BTC /SPX into space.” This is a classic clickbait.
⚠️ Investor Summary
Do not confuse technical preventive maintenance of the monetary system plumbing with a reversal of the Fed's macroeconomic policy.
‼️ Conclusion: The operation is routine, liquidity is technical, there is no reason for FOMO. We trade the trend, not the schedule of technical auctions! 📉📈
