Download the Federal Reserve Financial Crisis Discount Window Loan Data

This is the download link for the data provided by Bloomberg of the Federal Reserve Financial Crisis Discount Window Loan Data. This thread is to act as a point of discussion of the data found in this 129MB zip file hosted on: "The Public Intelligence Blog".

Here is the link: info.publicintelligence.net...

Man opening this file it is huge and full of detailed lending data for the FED Discount window. It is going to take a lot of people looking through a lot of data for a long time to really analyze this stuff. Already interesting to say the least. Hope others can find this link and give us a hand. I am starting on the FOIA request for 2010 and that is 282 files that are 6-10 pages each on average. It includes the borrowing bank, the loan, the maturity date, and the loan amount.

If you want to view this online some of it is hosted on scribed here: www.scribd.com...

I heard the entire thing was 29,000 pages? Ron Paul says the total amount loaned was 100 trillion dollars.

This is incredible information. While the public thought that the government was loaning mega banks 700 billion dollars, the federal reserve was loaning FOREIGN banks 100 trillion dollars. This should really be a slap in the face of even the most clueless Americans that the fed is by far wealthier than the government.

reply to post by filosophia


They are wealthy in the way they can print the global reserve currency on demand that is certain. What to me is less certain is that they have anything real at all to loan. It seems to me that they are the phantom money loan company of the world.

Largest US receiver of funds from the Financial Crisis Discount window so far is Bank of New York Mellon www.bnymellon.com... . They are far more into the fed than any other institution. The numbers are staggering.

I downloaded and I am currently running through the files. One name that keeps popping up is the Bank of the Cascades, recieving multiple, I mean multiple deposits from the Fed. All within the a very short period of time.

They are actually a small banking corporation. Any ideas?

Edit to add:
BOTC 2008 earnings

In this earnings report they mention this:

I am appreciative of our established financial strengths and gratified that we are able to take these actions and remain ‘well-capitalized’ by all regulatory benchmark

Then further down it says this:

In view of the present adverse and uncertain economic conditions and consistent with the Company’s dividend policy wherein quarterly cash dividends are to be paid from current earnings, the Board of Directors accordingly has decided to omit the quarterly cash dividend at this time.

Well funded, but omits dividend info? Is it because their is nothing to pay out, or disclose, or is something else going on here?

The search continues!

Another edit to add:

They are not even including the funds received by the Fed in their reports! Am I missing something?

reply to post by sheepslayer247


I am focusing on the 2010 FOIA requests. I am also focused on foreign banks but my cut off is that they have to be borrowing billions. What section are you reviewing?

reply to post by wayouttheredude

I started at 2008 and was going to work my way up. So far they have received a lot of cash. Not the big dogs by any means, but very interesting. So far they have been on each list receiving millions every few days.

I did a Forbes bio check on two of the Bank's officers and they received higher compensation during these times in which they were collecting money from the Fed!
Patricia Moss
Henry H. Hewitt

Maybe I am missing something but so far I am troubled to say the least.

Edit to add: I just ran into the "Not Categorized" section and it states that CHINA has outstanding debt! LOL

reply to post by sheepslayer247


So far the biggest foreign banks in debt to the FED in the 2010 FOIA request are:

DEXIA CREDIT LOCAL NY BR www.dexia.com...

DEPFA BK PLC NY BR www.hyporealestate.com...

I have not done the totals but they will likely be in the Trillions of Dollars each.

Take a look at the CPFF pdf file. It shows that corporations such as GE were involved in backing currency! We really need an expert to come in and make some sense of this, otherwise I am not going to get any sleep!

Ok, heres one for you and please tell me I am wrong!

Look at doc25.pdf, catagory 6 under PDCF collateral reports.

In 5 DAYS the fed loaned out $734.57 billion bucks!

$800 billion bailout my arse!


Edit to add: Just keep looking! Billions is going to be small change by the time we are done here!

reply to post by sheepslayer247


Isn't it interesting that from these files it takes just simple addition to see that the numbers reported by the fed do not agree with their information released. Now we know why Bernanke held a press conference. The feds veil of secrecy is fading fast and their time is coming to a close I think.