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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The most damaging program you have never heard of is getting worse. The Federal Reserve has just released the minutes of its last regular meeting. This board of bankers, which controls the money ...

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 ...

To understand why so many $50 bills were printed, it’s important to know how the system of printing money works. The Fed doesn’t print any physical money itself; it estimates the anticipated ...

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 ...

Around mid-April last year, the size of the US Federal Reserve’s balance sheet peaked at around $8.97 trillion. ... This means that the Fed has started printing money again.

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 ...