Potter's arrival was most notable for not only taking over the Fed's QE baton from Sack, currently a director at quant trading giant DE Shaw, but because his arrival also marked the start of a multi-year crash in the VIX future, which collapsed the month Potter took over and has hit ever steeper lows ever since (with the exception of the occasional VIX explosion).

Several years later, it was Zero Hedge that also first reported on the practical implications of Potter's apparent market intervention, when just a few months later, during the October 22-24, 2012 FOMC meeting, now Fed Chair Jerome Powell made the following striking remarks (which was disclosed last year as part of the Fed's declassification of its FOMC transcripts):

[W]hen it is time for us to sell, or even to stop buying, the response could be quite strong; there is every reason to expect a strong response. So there are a couple of ways to look at it. It is about $1.2 trillion in sales; you take 60 months, you get about $20 billion a month. That is a very doable thing, it sounds like, in a market where the norm by the middle of next year is $80 billion a month. Another way to look at it, though, is that it's not so much the sale, the duration; it's also unloading our short volatility position.