Sol Rosenberg

Wall St. Banks: Giving Props to Trading Risks

I found a typo in your article.

"That may force the investment bank to commit some of its own capital to acquire those shares in a series of separate transactions, so as not to create an undue spike in the stock’s price."

should read:

"That may force the investment bank to commit some of its own capital to front-run those shares in a series of separate transactions, so as to get some ROI on all of those expensive HFT computers."

The 'Plunge Protection Team' Working Overtime: A Play-By-Play

The cash never has to "go missing." The Fed is printing it (digitally) out of thin air. It will show up in inflation down the road.