then the money velocity graph shouldn’t look like it does and the excess reserves of depository institutions graph definitely shouldn’t look like it does. The money is just sitting there in limbo according to the graphs. If it’s just going to sit there in reserve, what was the point of creating it in the first place? It was like raising the largest army the world has ever seen and then not using them to fight the biggest war the world has ever seen.
Fed used it to buy toxic debt from banks which now sits on the Fed’s books.