Fed Ends QT: No 2019 Altcoin Supercycle Repeat. - Reddit Bullish?

Alright, so the Fed's calling it quits on Quantitative Tightening December 1st, 2025. Balance sheet frozen at $6.57 trillion. They drained almost two and a half trillion bucks from the system. Interest rates already slashed. Crypto bros are wetting themselves, comparing this to August 2019. Give me a break.

"Money Printer Go Brrr" Is All You Need to Know?

The Usual Suspects and Their Hopium So, the narrative is: QT ends, liquidity floods back in, altcoins moon, everyone's rich. Again. This time it's different. Offcourse. They're pointing at the 2019 pause, Bitcoin's surge, blah blah blah. Shanaka Anslem's calling this the "Standing Repo Era." Sounds like a bad sci-fi flick. Bitcoin dominance is below 60%, which is supposed to be bullish? Global M2 money supply is rising, supposedly leading BTC by a few weeks. Gold's hitting all-time highs. Okay, fine, maybe there's *some* correlation. But let's be real, it all boils down to this: they expect us to believe liquidity is the only thing driving this market. Not actual innovation, not real-world adoption, not anything resembling fundamental value. Just…more money printer go brrr. And they're drawing parallels to 2019? Newsflash: the world's a slightly different place now. We've got thirty-six *trillion* in federal debt, and a trillion-dollar interest bill *every year*. The Standing Repo Facility is now a permanent freaking fixture. That's not a sign of health, people. That's a sign of life support.

"Somewhat Elevated"? More Like an Economic Inferno

The Inconvenient Truth The Fed's statement mentioned "rising downside risks to employment" and "somewhat elevated" inflation. "Somewhat elevated"? CPI is still at 3%! Above the 2% target! It's like saying your house is "somewhat" on fire when the roof is collapsing. And here's the kicker: the FOMC meeting on December 10th will happen without any *fresh* CPI data. Because of a 43-day government shutdown. Seriously? So, they're making major monetary policy decisions based on *old* information? It's like driving a car looking only in the rearview mirror. No, wait, it's worse than that. It's like driving a car looking only in the rearview mirror *after someone smeared Vaseline all over it*. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is already hinting at *more* rate cuts. After they already cut rates? After they just ended QT? What's next, negative interest rates? Are they just throwing darts at a board labeled "Economic Policies We Haven't Tried Yet"? Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe there's some genius-level strategy at play here that's beyond my feeble comprehension. But if there is, I sure as hell can't see it. Oh, and I saw someone mention the Secured Overnight Financing Rate spiked to 4.25% in October. 4.25%! Exceeding the Fed's target range! And the Standing Repo Facility had a single-day activation of $18.5 billion. Eighteen. Point. Five. Billion. Sounds like everything is going swimmingly, doesn't it? So, What's the Real Story? It's a band-aid on a bullet wound. They're injecting short-term liquidity to mask long-term insolvency. The whole damn system is addicted to cheap money, and when the withdrawals start, things get ugly. This QT pause is just another fix, another temporary high before the inevitable crash. The crypto pump will happen, sure, but it's just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.