3/5/09

Why would the Federal Reserve decline to disclose the values of collateralfor more than $1.9 trillion lent to financial institutions?

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Has the Federal Reserve ever been independently audited?


 


The Fed refused yesterday to disclose [the current market values]


… of more than $1.9 trillion of emergency credit from U.S. taxpayers


 and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral


 


Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson


said in September they would meet congressional demands


 for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system


 


Bloomberg


Via Mish Shedlock



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