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by guiomie 1351 days ago
I thought the Fed bought treasury bonds straight from the government, are you saying they only buy these bond owned by banks intially?
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Yes. The Fed buys its treasuries under QE from banks. To pay for it, a reserve asset is credited to the bank within the banking system.

No net money is created.

> No net money is created.

Interesting that you're separating the responsibility of money creation to "banks within the banking system", and not the Fed, despite the Fed being the only power here who can buy unlimited assets.