[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/twitter/Monetaryguy589) "Branches of Foreign Banks in the U.S. don't create🟩Consumer loans (Auto Loans Credit Cards and Personal loans) - but they definitely create🟥Loans to Nondepository Financial Institutions (Hedge Funds Investment Managers and Securities Brokers). Currently H.8 Branches of Foreign Banks Loans to NDFI's total $XXX Billion"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1944581465939034228) 2025-07-14 02:15:24 UTC 4523 followers, 2038 engagements "Not to be left out 🟩Branches of Foreign Banks have also increased their holdings of Treasury securities by almost $20B (15%) to $140B just since the beginning of the year Coincidentally 🤔 the previous peak for Treasuries held by Branches of Foreign Banks ($157B) occurred the same week in September of 2019 that we experienced the Repo breakdown"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1945378100981981381) 2025-07-16 07:00:57 UTC 4520 followers, XXX engagements "Securities Dealers are currently reporting a $X Trillion "net asset position" in 🟦Treasuries and 🟧Agency MBS holdings as of 1Q25 What's more interesting.🤔 the first quarter increase in MBS net asset position was the largest in history for the Dealers - including just prior to the 2008 monetary crisis"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1939741536876732449) 2025-06-30 17:43:15 UTC 4528 followers, XXX engagements "Weekly Balance Sheet Maneuvers of the Federal Reserve 🏦 There are X main liabilities of the Fed other than the physical Currency it prints Depending on movements on Asset side of the Fed's balance sheet withSecurities QE QT or RRP - and depending on what the Federal Government is doing with spending and tax receipts into the🟪Treasury General Account - these other liabilities collectively adjust each week to counterbalance those changes in Assets. The net result of changes in these liabilities or "factors" is the total amount of Reserve Balances that get apportioned to the Banks for that"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1945994315496595475) 2025-07-17 23:49:34 UTC 4519 followers, XXX engagements "The ability of average people in Society to access the same (or better) economic data than Central Bank economists requires a different construct - they are no longer the experts"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1947296055520858296) 2025-07-21 14:02:13 UTC 4528 followers, 4055 engagements "What Backs the Fed's Money 🤔 The Federal Reserve holds Securities Assets on its Balance Sheet as collateral to backstop the physical Currency it prints and distributes throughout the world as well as the digital Reserve Balances it apportions to the Commerical Banks Up until 2008 the Fed's balance sheet was simple - 🟥Treasury Assets backed 🟩Currency Liabilities Then we went through a period where the Currency was under collateralized - so the Fed decided to createReserves to acquire bad assets from the Banks - providing liquidity to the interbank system and creating the current "ample"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1945697431276155090) 2025-07-17 04:09:51 UTC 4526 followers, 1304 engagements "Now that the Banks can officially create dollars for their Customers in the form of stablecoins and considering the optimum way to create them is by collateralizing Reserve Balances will the Banks find it more profitable to just "cash out" from the Fed If the liquidity features of this new form of money become more valuable than holding illiquid Reserve balances at the Fed earning IORB or if stablecoins become more desirable to hold as savings vehicles by foreigners instead of Currency then what purpose do we have for a "money creating" central bank 🤔"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1946391028388516259) 2025-07-19 02:05:58 UTC 4528 followers, XXX engagements "From the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 🤔 The calculated G-SIB Banks scores related to systemic importance in global Payments Activity 2014 vs. 2024 No wonder JPM is holding back the crypto"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1947396680154026455) 2025-07-21 20:42:04 UTC 4528 followers, 1615 engagements "An excellent idea but its really District X in New York that needs the first exam"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1947288807407268171) 2025-07-21 13:33:25 UTC 4527 followers, XXX engagements "Qualifying Hedge Funds' Gross Assets & Leverage (Borrowing) as of 1Q25 reported in the OFR Hedge Fund Monitor statistics Assets of QHF's hit $10.92T by Mar 2025 but leverage soared to $11.93T exceeding assets for the last X quarters Rising borrowings from Domestic and Foreign G-SIBs and others signal massive growth - but at what risk🤔"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1943480213306069361) 2025-07-11 01:19:25 UTC 4528 followers, 1335 engagements "This is SO important and no one is talking about it - so let me be crystal clear Under the Genius Act Banks can use their Reserve Balances at the Fed - AS COLLATERAL - to back stable coins. This means XX years of trapped Bank Reserves totaling $XXX Trillion are about to become liquid. Under Genius Stablecoin collateral cannot be rehypothecated So if you are a Bank using Treasuries or Repo to back your stable coins means you cannot use those assets as collateral elsewhere on your Balance sheet. This is a problem because chances are you are doing that exact thing now with your Treasuries. Bank"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1940482414251557264) 2025-07-02 18:47:14 UTC 4528 followers, 84.6K engagements "Did you know. Dollar denominated stablecoins held on crypto exchanges are not considered part of M2 (yet)👌"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1946342772321264035) 2025-07-18 22:54:12 UTC 4523 followers, 1120 engagements "Since we are discussing privatizing the GSE's attached is the Balance sheet of the GSE's from the Feds the Z.1 Financial Statistics L.125 Series👌 Assets (+) 🟩Single Family Mortgages - $6.77T 🟦Multifamily Mortgages - $591B Farm Credit - $412B 🟥Fed Funds Sold - $261B 🟨Debt Securities - $527B 🟧Checkable Deposits -$79B 🟪FHLBanks Advances - $727B Miscellaneous: $131B Total Assets of GSEs: $XXXX Trillion Liabilities (-) 🟩"Securitized GSE Issues" - credit enhancements backing of $7.15T in Fannie/Freddie Loans. 🟦"Other GSE Issues" - which are FHLBanks Advances or Loans. FHLBanks issue bonds"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1925341892755263969) 2025-05-22 00:04:13 UTC 4523 followers, 2801 engagements ""It's well known that the Federal Reserve resists any kind of a rule-based approach to making monetary policy. They want to have full discretionary capability to decide - in a free market economy - what should be the rate of interest" @judyshel"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1947802626676105544) 2025-07-22 23:35:09 UTC 4528 followers, XXX engagements "Revolutionizing Banking with Stablecoins: A Proposal for a New Financial Paradigm🏦🤔 As of last week the Federal Reserve is grappling with an ever-increasing $230B deferred asset deficit driven by $78B in annual IORB losses currently on $3.4T of Reserve Balances earning XXX% Enter the GENIUS Act: Banks can now encumber $1.80T of Reserve Balances to issue stablecoins neutralizing the loss. First we stop paying IORB on $1.50T of Reserves held in the Branches of Foreign Banks and convert all of their Reserve Balances into stable coins - saving $66B in IORB. Currently Foreign Branches maintain"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1935926901702639878) 2025-06-20 05:05:15 UTC 4528 followers, 3175 engagements "FDIC Net Interest Income from Reserve Balances In the 1Q of 2025 the FDIC Insured Banks generated $179B of Net Interest Income 🟧(LHS) Of this $25B (14%) was Interest Income received on Reserve Balances deposited with the Federal Reserve🟩(RHS) Although we have no access to this data I would assume this ratio is significantly higher when applied to the non-FDIC insured Branches of Foreign Banks"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1945674159855690177) 2025-07-17 02:37:23 UTC 4524 followers, XXX engagements "Reserve Balances held by the Federal Reserve 🏦 🟩Branches of Foreign Banks: 1.439T (42.4%) 🟪Small Domestic Banks: $509B (15.0%) 🟧Large Domestic Banks: $1.450T (42.7%) When the interest payments the Fed makes to the Banks on these Reserve Balances result in a lack of profitable Remittances to the Treasury it means the Taxpayers end up directly burdened with incremental debt issuance"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1946335901187277062) 2025-07-18 22:26:54 UTC 4528 followers, 1706 engagements "The part that matter is what the Treasury says - not the Fed 🤷♂"  [@Monetaryguy589](/creator/x/Monetaryguy589) on [X](/post/tweet/1947017278052348201) 2025-07-20 19:34:27 UTC 4528 followers, XXX engagements
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"Branches of Foreign Banks in the U.S. don't create🟩Consumer loans (Auto Loans Credit Cards and Personal loans) - but they definitely create🟥Loans to Nondepository Financial Institutions (Hedge Funds Investment Managers and Securities Brokers). Currently H.8 Branches of Foreign Banks Loans to NDFI's total $XXX Billion" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-14 02:15:24 UTC 4523 followers, 2038 engagements
"Not to be left out 🟩Branches of Foreign Banks have also increased their holdings of Treasury securities by almost $20B (15%) to $140B just since the beginning of the year Coincidentally 🤔 the previous peak for Treasuries held by Branches of Foreign Banks ($157B) occurred the same week in September of 2019 that we experienced the Repo breakdown" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-16 07:00:57 UTC 4520 followers, XXX engagements
"Securities Dealers are currently reporting a $X Trillion "net asset position" in 🟦Treasuries and 🟧Agency MBS holdings as of 1Q25 What's more interesting.🤔 the first quarter increase in MBS net asset position was the largest in history for the Dealers - including just prior to the 2008 monetary crisis" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-06-30 17:43:15 UTC 4528 followers, XXX engagements
"Weekly Balance Sheet Maneuvers of the Federal Reserve 🏦 There are X main liabilities of the Fed other than the physical Currency it prints Depending on movements on Asset side of the Fed's balance sheet withSecurities QE QT or RRP - and depending on what the Federal Government is doing with spending and tax receipts into the🟪Treasury General Account - these other liabilities collectively adjust each week to counterbalance those changes in Assets. The net result of changes in these liabilities or "factors" is the total amount of Reserve Balances that get apportioned to the Banks for that" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-17 23:49:34 UTC 4519 followers, XXX engagements
"The ability of average people in Society to access the same (or better) economic data than Central Bank economists requires a different construct - they are no longer the experts" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-21 14:02:13 UTC 4528 followers, 4055 engagements
"What Backs the Fed's Money 🤔 The Federal Reserve holds Securities Assets on its Balance Sheet as collateral to backstop the physical Currency it prints and distributes throughout the world as well as the digital Reserve Balances it apportions to the Commerical Banks Up until 2008 the Fed's balance sheet was simple - 🟥Treasury Assets backed 🟩Currency Liabilities Then we went through a period where the Currency was under collateralized - so the Fed decided to createReserves to acquire bad assets from the Banks - providing liquidity to the interbank system and creating the current "ample" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-17 04:09:51 UTC 4526 followers, 1304 engagements
"Now that the Banks can officially create dollars for their Customers in the form of stablecoins and considering the optimum way to create them is by collateralizing Reserve Balances will the Banks find it more profitable to just "cash out" from the Fed If the liquidity features of this new form of money become more valuable than holding illiquid Reserve balances at the Fed earning IORB or if stablecoins become more desirable to hold as savings vehicles by foreigners instead of Currency then what purpose do we have for a "money creating" central bank 🤔" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-19 02:05:58 UTC 4528 followers, XXX engagements
"From the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 🤔 The calculated G-SIB Banks scores related to systemic importance in global Payments Activity 2014 vs. 2024 No wonder JPM is holding back the crypto" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-21 20:42:04 UTC 4528 followers, 1615 engagements
"An excellent idea but its really District X in New York that needs the first exam" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-21 13:33:25 UTC 4527 followers, XXX engagements
"Qualifying Hedge Funds' Gross Assets & Leverage (Borrowing) as of 1Q25 reported in the OFR Hedge Fund Monitor statistics Assets of QHF's hit $10.92T by Mar 2025 but leverage soared to $11.93T exceeding assets for the last X quarters Rising borrowings from Domestic and Foreign G-SIBs and others signal massive growth - but at what risk🤔" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-11 01:19:25 UTC 4528 followers, 1335 engagements
"This is SO important and no one is talking about it - so let me be crystal clear Under the Genius Act Banks can use their Reserve Balances at the Fed - AS COLLATERAL - to back stable coins. This means XX years of trapped Bank Reserves totaling $XXX Trillion are about to become liquid. Under Genius Stablecoin collateral cannot be rehypothecated So if you are a Bank using Treasuries or Repo to back your stable coins means you cannot use those assets as collateral elsewhere on your Balance sheet. This is a problem because chances are you are doing that exact thing now with your Treasuries. Bank" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-02 18:47:14 UTC 4528 followers, 84.6K engagements
"Did you know. Dollar denominated stablecoins held on crypto exchanges are not considered part of M2 (yet)👌" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-18 22:54:12 UTC 4523 followers, 1120 engagements
"Since we are discussing privatizing the GSE's attached is the Balance sheet of the GSE's from the Feds the Z.1 Financial Statistics L.125 Series👌 Assets (+) 🟩Single Family Mortgages - $6.77T 🟦Multifamily Mortgages - $591B Farm Credit - $412B 🟥Fed Funds Sold - $261B 🟨Debt Securities - $527B 🟧Checkable Deposits -$79B 🟪FHLBanks Advances - $727B Miscellaneous: $131B Total Assets of GSEs: $XXXX Trillion Liabilities (-) 🟩"Securitized GSE Issues" - credit enhancements backing of $7.15T in Fannie/Freddie Loans. 🟦"Other GSE Issues" - which are FHLBanks Advances or Loans. FHLBanks issue bonds" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-05-22 00:04:13 UTC 4523 followers, 2801 engagements
""It's well known that the Federal Reserve resists any kind of a rule-based approach to making monetary policy. They want to have full discretionary capability to decide - in a free market economy - what should be the rate of interest" @judyshel" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-22 23:35:09 UTC 4528 followers, XXX engagements
"Revolutionizing Banking with Stablecoins: A Proposal for a New Financial Paradigm🏦🤔 As of last week the Federal Reserve is grappling with an ever-increasing $230B deferred asset deficit driven by $78B in annual IORB losses currently on $3.4T of Reserve Balances earning XXX% Enter the GENIUS Act: Banks can now encumber $1.80T of Reserve Balances to issue stablecoins neutralizing the loss. First we stop paying IORB on $1.50T of Reserves held in the Branches of Foreign Banks and convert all of their Reserve Balances into stable coins - saving $66B in IORB. Currently Foreign Branches maintain" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-06-20 05:05:15 UTC 4528 followers, 3175 engagements
"FDIC Net Interest Income from Reserve Balances In the 1Q of 2025 the FDIC Insured Banks generated $179B of Net Interest Income 🟧(LHS) Of this $25B (14%) was Interest Income received on Reserve Balances deposited with the Federal Reserve🟩(RHS) Although we have no access to this data I would assume this ratio is significantly higher when applied to the non-FDIC insured Branches of Foreign Banks" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-17 02:37:23 UTC 4524 followers, XXX engagements
"Reserve Balances held by the Federal Reserve 🏦 🟩Branches of Foreign Banks: 1.439T (42.4%) 🟪Small Domestic Banks: $509B (15.0%) 🟧Large Domestic Banks: $1.450T (42.7%) When the interest payments the Fed makes to the Banks on these Reserve Balances result in a lack of profitable Remittances to the Treasury it means the Taxpayers end up directly burdened with incremental debt issuance" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-18 22:26:54 UTC 4528 followers, 1706 engagements
"The part that matter is what the Treasury says - not the Fed 🤷♂" @Monetaryguy589 on X 2025-07-20 19:34:27 UTC 4528 followers, XXX engagements
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