Hussman: Critical Point

John Hussman very good again this week:
He repeats a wrning that the Fed is not pumping out as much money as the financial press seems to think

Despite hopes that the Fed can reverse these pressures, the fact is that the entire amount of "liquidity” added to the banking system by the Fed in the past four months amounts to about $15 billion (in a banking system with a thousand times that in loans and assets). On Thursday, several news stories reported that the Fed “pumped $47.25 billion of liquidity into the banking system,” the highest total since September 2001 - but you'll find once again that $40.5 billion of that was pure rollovers of existing repos (which Thomson Financial noted in a news story the day before as my ballpark expectation). The rest is pre-holiday liquidity to accommodate demand for cash. Investors are deluding themselves when they count each rollover of a 3-day, 7-day or 14-day repo as new money. It's the same stuff, rolled over to retire the maturing stuff. The amount of outstanding repos is currently only about $15 billion more than its lowest 30-day average over the past year.

The article covers many topics and I urge investors to read it entirely.