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No it doesn't suck money out, but it reduces the rate at which new money is created through borrowing.

Every time a loan is agreed, the value of the ${NATIONAL_CURRENCY} is diluted by a tiny amount. And that tiny dilution is amplified through the economy and has a proportionally larger effect on the price of end-user items which inflate to compensate.

Increasing interest rates is not a lever that directly affects things measured by the CPI, but the idea is that the effects will ripple through the economy and reduce the delta-v of their prices at the end of a very complicated series of gears and pulleys.

It's a bit like trying to refloat a grounded ship by subtly nudging the Moon's orbit to modify the tides.

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> No it doesn't suck money out, but it reduces the rate at which new money is created through borrowing.

This is true. It does not tell me how the money created through borrowing between 0.75% rates and 4.00% rates was used to buy food and gas though.

That borrowed money was overwhelming actually used to buy equities, which the fed is obviously impacting very effectively, and not food and gas, even indirectly.