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To: Toddsterpatriot
Prove the Fed created $2 trillion more cash.

I will take the published statistics of the Federal Reserve for it. You apparently believe that it is all a fiction.

Wanting to hold more of one's assets in cash does not make more cash available.

If everyone holding non cash financial assets (stocks, bonds, real estate gold, etc.) in the US tomorrow decided instead they wanted to hold cash, the total value of all non cash assets would plummet to some fraction (less than 100%) of all cash currently on hand. It would not create an extra dime of cash not already in the banking system (less a certain amount of money currently stuffed in matresses that might come out of matresses and actually be put into the banking system).

Anything else would have to be generated through an increase in banking reserves.

But you know that already and are just being very very dense to try to show how very smart you are.

69 posted on 04/29/2008 11:46:49 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson
Prove the Fed created $2 trillion more cash.

I will take the published statistics of the Federal Reserve for it. You apparently believe that it is all a fiction.

This chart you posted does not show that the Fed created the "2 Trillion blip up on the tail of the cart from oh about the middle of 2007 through to the present moment"

The only way the Fed can create money is by adding securities to their balance sheet. How much did they add since oh about the middle of 2007 through to the present moment?

You apparently believe that it is all a fiction.

Yes, your supposed understanding is all a fiction.

See, the thing about money with zero maturity is that it can increase without any action by the Fed. My CD matured, some of my money moved from M2 (time deposits) to M0.

Glad I could help.

70 posted on 04/29/2008 1:59:04 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Why are doom and gloomers, union members and liberals so bad at math?)
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