[wcarron]

It's interesting that bitcoin (and crypto maximalists in general) repeatedly harp on and attack QE as if it was the end of democracy itself.

QE is just another tool for monetary policy designed to combat deflation and increase available capital supply as a stimulus measure. Because QE belongs to the school of thought that the economy is driven by consumer spending as opposed to consumer savings.

Could you please elaborate on what you mean by: > steal money from the public with QE ?

[whataretensors]

Sure. QE is buying stock with printed money, inflating stock prices. People with lots of stocks get inflated value. When the inflated value leaves the stock market, it has an effect of deflating the value of the USD. It's a slow inflationary method of distributing public funds to the rich in the stock market, while creating market manipulation tools to coerce stock-driven companies into essentially being proxy government entities, since a large percentage of their value can be decided with 'monetary policy'(leading to things like google's pentagon drone ai collaboration).

I also believe SV companies are lining up to IPO because of this blank check.

[wcarron]

First off (but probably inconsequential), why do you put "monetary policy" in quotations? Monetary policy is literally an Econ 101 term.

But also: A large percentage of any public companies' value can be decided by monetary policy, in the sense a companies value can be decided by inflation or deflation. Monetary policy is just an official term for central bank decisions to influence the supply of money and credit in an economy.

> When the inflated value leaves the stock market, it has an effect of deflating the value of the USD

If you're trying to argue that QE is bad because inflation is bad and people participate in profit taking, you'll need to get over that. What would you like to do? Ban the sale of stocks by persons over a certain net-worth?

> while creating market manipulation tools to coerce stock-driven companies

What, pray tell, are these tools? You know, besides creating mild inflation and some influence on interest rates?

Additionally, you seem to have forgotten that an explicit goal of QE is to lower interest rates, allowing everyone, not just the rich, easier access to capital in order to stimulate the economy. QE demonstratively does not solely redistribute more wealth to the wealthy.

Furthermore, your entire premise is shaky, considering the most prominent historical example (the US recession) mostly consisted of the Fed purchasing $4.5 trillion of mortgage-backed securities.

It's really not exactly "making money out of thin air" considering the Fed purchased securities pegged to a real good/service, mortgages.

Lastly, SV IPOs weren't exactly popular last year. Nor in 2016 or 2015.

[CryptoPunk]

QE extracts wealth from the public through seignorage, and redistributes it to private parties.