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Can the Federal Reserve permanently decrease money supply?
As far as I understand it, the primary way the Federal Reserve decreases the money supply is by selling bonds–the entities buying these bonds give up their cash for them and thus M0 is decreased. ...
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How the Fed and Treasury coordinate on liquidity management
On top of the Fed's USD120bn monthly treasury/MBS purchases, the drawdown in Treasury issuance over the last year has also added over USD1tr to the system. The premise is, faced with drawn-out debt ...
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How does the Fed's stimulus push stocks markets higher?
I read that the Fed’s stimulus last March has contributed to a spectacular rally in stock markets. And indeed S&P500 has increased a lot since March.
But how does the mechanism work? How does the ...
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What does the Fed do with their profits?
As far as I understand the system the Fed prints money which it then uses to buy bonds. Bonds are basically statements of debt meaning that the Fed receives interest from the parties it has bought the ...
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Is it true that when the overall money supply decreases, that the demand for money decreases and the demand for bonds and securities both increase?
Is it true that when the overall money supply decreases, that the demand for money decreases and the demand for bonds and securities both increase?
I understand that to increase the money supply, the ...
