New answers tagged government-debt
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Central banks "...inject currency into the financial system" by carrying out asset purchases---sovereign bonds/MBSs/ETFs/etc.
In practice, this is a transaction between the central bank and large financial institutions with deposit accounts at the central bank. For example, the Federal Reserve "buys" X billion dollars worth of US 30-year T-Bills from ...
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