How funny money is created.
- The gov't prints treasury bonds.
- The gov't sells those bonds to the Fed (Privately held coorporation acting as a agency of the gov't)
- How does the Fed pay for the bonds? From nowhere - they make a bookeeping entry.
- The money, created from nowhere, is delivered to the Gov't.
- The gov't spends the money.
- The gov't pays the Fed interest on the bonds!
When the Fed wants to increase the money supply:
- It buys bonds from the banks, paying for it with a bookeeping entry.
- The banks lend this money out.
Remember the Wendy's ad 'Where's the beef?' we should ask 'Where's the gold?'
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Source: Summarized from page 10 of the Long Wave Analyst. Aug-Nov edition.
BK