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Podcast: ITM Trading Podcast
Episode: Stealth QE: Fed Secretly Bought $43.6B in Bonds - Why are They Hiding it?
Description: “They’re not calling it QE, but that’s exactly what it is,” says Michael Gentile, founder partner at Bastion Asset Management. He tells Daniela Cambone that the Fed’s quiet purchase of $43 billion in U.S. bonds signals “how precarious the situation” has become—with rising deficits, fewer natural buyers of U.S. debt, and the Fed increasingly forced to intervene. As a result, central banks around the world are rotating out of the U.S. dollar and into physical gold, driving a multi-decade structural shift in global reserve strategy. “We’re seeing a multi-year, multi-decade rotation out of U.S. dollar asset...