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by el_senor_duerpo
4821 days ago
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First of all, if our actual markets started to experience this kind of volatility, circuit breakers would kick in. Second, even if they didn't the Fed could easily respond in real time. It's not as if the Fed actually, literally "prints money". They would just go onto those forex markets and sell people dollars, transferred digitally and made up out of thin air. And their servers wouldn't crash while doing it. Edit: I should add to this that, at least to a first approximation, the Fed is not terribly concerned with the nominal exchange rate. They are charged with maintaining full employment and price stability within our own economy, while the nominal exchange rate is allowed to float against other currencies. Because have have our own production economy, there are good fundamental reasons for fluctuations in the real exchange rate that should be permitted to occur. |
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