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It is buying up government bonds at a rate of 80 trillion yen, or $770 billion, a year to keep financial institutions flush with lendable cash.

Soon the banks were flush with lendable funds.

To the hawks, the Fed’s drive to pump up banks’ lendable reserves has created a $1.5 trillion bomb with a short fuse.

Short interest in GM climbed to 2.5 percent of total shares, about one-fifth of lendable supply, London-based Data Explorers said last week in a report.

Short sellers have borrowed 82 percent of the company’s lendable supply, meaning there’s limited equity available for short sellers to bet against.