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U.S. Financial System “Monitor” Failed to Flash Warning as Fed Pumped $6 Trillion Emergency Liquidity into Wall Street

Courtesy of Pam Martens

Financial System Vulnerability Monitor

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) was created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010 to keep the Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC) informed on emerging threats that have the potential to implode the financial system — as occurred in 2008 in the worst financial crash since the Great Depression. The Trump administration has gutted both its funding and staff.

One of the early warning systems of an impending financial crisis that OFR was supposed to have created is the heat map above. Green means low risk; yellow tones mean moderate risk; while red tones flash a warning of a serious problem.

On September 17, 2019, liquidity was so strained on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve had to step in and began providing hundreds of billions of dollars per week in repo loans. By January 27, 2020 (before one death from coronavirus had been reported in the United States) we reported that the Fed had pumped in a cumulative total of $6.6 trillion in liquidity to the trading houses on Wall Street.

And yet, take a look at the OFR’s heat map above. Contagion Risk, Funding/Liquidity Risk, Solvency/Leverage Risk, and Credit Risk failed to flash red through either the third or fourth quarter of last year.


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