Once the economy got going, the Fed was supposed to stop printing money. The economy would then stand on its own. I used the phrase “supposed to” a number of times because QE didn’t quite ...

That was QE1. There has long been speculation that another trillion-plus money-printing program called QE2 is coming, but only recently have there been concrete hints from the Fed along those lines.

How the Fed injects money into the economy. The Federal Reserve doesn’t literally print paper dollars. That’s the job of the U.S. Treasury, which also collects taxes and issues debt at the ...

QE2 comes to a formal end this month, and just in the nick of time too, since it’s been flooding the markets with newly printed money, making hyper inflation and a collapse of the dollar inevitable.

If the Fed were to ease up “printing money,” we might see significant deflation, like Japan in the 1990s. Worst still, we might see rapidly increasing inflation.

The New York Fed said in 2023 that the Fed would keep losing money if short-term rates stayed above 4%. The current rate is around 4.3%, down from 5.3% last September. It’s close—but still ...

Is it possible the Fed may have fired-up the money printing press last week? The Fed’s total balance sheet was up $14.1B during the week ending February 14, ...

But running the money printing press in high gear has an insidious effect: A portion of every existing dollar is effectively confiscated by the Fed and transfused into the newly created currency ...

Its central bank creates new money. In America, that bank is the Fed, which uses the new money to buy the IOUs the U.S. Treasury issues when it borrows money: Treasury bills, notes and bonds.

Economist Brian Wesbury argues that the Federal Reserve's massive balance sheet expansion during Covid has not just distorted global financial markets but enabled an increasingly unaccountable and ...

Money-market ructions in the autumn of 2019, including surging short-term financing costs, led the Fed to bring its previous round of QT to a screeching halt. This time, it has avoided such ...