Bloomberg: Fed Pumps Further $630 Billion Into Financial System

[PerfectSage]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aP5hzUWla7Jg&refer=home

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.

The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion to make more dollars available worldwide. The Term Auction Facility, the Fed's emergency loan program, will expand by $300 billion to $450 billion. The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are among the participating authorities.

The Fed's expansion of liquidity, the biggest since credit markets seized up last year, comes as Congress prepares to vote on a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry. The crisis is reverberating through the global economy, causing stocks to plunge and forcing European governments to rescue four banks over the past two days alone.

``Today's blast of term liquidity will settle the funding markets down, and allow trust to slowly be restored between borrowers and lenders,'' said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in New York. On the other hand, ``the Fed's balance sheet is about to explode.''

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Where is the Fed getting this $$$?

I guess the world has no choice?

[WeDidIt]

2. Now they'll print the cash we need

and that will lead to inflation while unemployment increases and real wages decrease.

We are on our way. Next Stop, the GREATER DEPRESSION!

[SnoopDog]

3. Doesn't this prove that this bailout was bullcrap?

[moodforaday]

4. Looks like Congress is irrelevant

Whether you thought the bailout bill should pass or not - clearly it's the Fed calling the shots now.