What we said, and what it has taken the mainstream some 3 years to figure out, is that the primary culprit for the collapse in sovereign bond market liquidity are the central banks themselves, first the Fed, then the BOJ, and now, the ECB. Because as we noted in September 2012, "here is a snapshot of the Fed's nominal holdings by CUSIP spread by maturity. Some may be surprised that the Fed already owns 70%, or the maximum allowed without the Fed destroying all liquidity in a given CUSIP, in various issues, primarily in the 7-10 year window.

Unfortunately, while the Fed's holdings expressed in 10 Year duration terms have so far peaked at around 35% of total, a level which many expected wouldn't be dire enough to lead to the evaporation of bond market depth also known as liquidity, what happened since then is that coupled with the surge of HFTs in bond market trading which contrary to popular opinion not only doesn't provide, but soaks up liquidity, as can be seen on the Nanex chart below...