Jay Kittens got out of that cage and bought some bonds!

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Original Post Date on Soggy Blog July, 1 2020

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The Federal Reserve did an exceptional job on the transparency of the Corporate Bond ETFs they purchased in 2020. I tried to do my best with visualizing Bond ETF purchases and individual bond purchases. ETF’s were not hard but the individual bond purchases were a bit of a nightmare. The data format changed in July of 2020 for individual bonds and completely blew up my visuals so I apologize for the clarity on issuer names.

Number of ETF shares purchased by Fed

Number of ETF shares purchased by Fed

The large issuers in the ETFs