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Banks Tap Fed Repo Facility For Another $20 Billion Friday Afternoon!

Fed Chair Jerome Powell, accompanying an article on the Fed's $40 billion monthly Treasury bill purchases

5-ALARM SILVER FIRE?

It appears that we are looking at a systemic banking crisis straight in the face.

After TBTF banks took down $74.6 in EMERGENCY LIQUIDITY from The Fed on New Year’s Eve, x.com/silvertrade/st , the banks have just tapped The Fed’s Repo Facility for ANOTHER $19.8 BILLION Friday afternoon!

Fed repo operation results dated 1/2/2026, showing $19.8 billion total accepted at a 3.75% rate

$94.4 BILLION IN LIQUIDITY INJECTIONS OVER THE NEW YEAR’S HOLIDAY WEEKEND.

It appears that we are about to discover why The Fed quietly removed the $500 Billion daily cap on its Standing Repo Facility in December.

We wrote on Christmas Day that if silver was allowed to GAP UP to $80/oz to match China’s silver price, it would DETONATE the bullion banks short silver. silvertrade.com/news/precious-

Last Friday, as silver skyrocketed from $71 to $79/oz, & The Fed’s Repo Facility was tapped for $17 Billion, we asked whether one of the large bullion bank’s silver shorts were being LIQUIDATED after reportedly being unable to make a margin call.
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Based on the events at the Fed’s Repo window as this week has progressed, it is starting to look like we are witnessing the fall-out of that DETONATION from behind the curtain in real time.

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