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Re:The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking i... by claudeganon on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:45PM (#24770112)
The Fed has already been buying ETFs, which is about a hair’s breadth away from buying stocks. I don’t doubt that they’ll buy stocks to prop up investors if the current stimulus proves ineffective.
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Re:The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking i... by nkurz on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:45PM (#24770678)
Confirming story: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fed-has-been-buying-et...

The possibly essential caveat being that the ETF's being purchased are (as far as publicly known) all bond ETF's.

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Re:The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking i... by mrep on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:51PM (#24771223)
Barely. They are only buying corporate bonds and the sum total of "Includes non-marketable U.S. Treasury securities, supranationals, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities, and commercial paper at face value" is 85.274 billion or a max of 1.2% of their asset sheet [0].

[0]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm

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