Re:The US dollar’s hegemony is looking fragile
by RobertoG on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:53AM
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If adding trillions of dollars in reserves (QE) are not inflationary because they don't act in the real economy, taking that trillions of dollars of reserves of the system is not going to be deflationary neither.
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Re:The US dollar’s hegemony is looking fragile
by dkjaudyeqooe on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:40AM
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Yes, all other things being equal, but that's the point isn't it? QE in a deflationary environment and QT in an inflationary one.
QE was very much inflationary and cancelled out the deflationary environment. QT will do the same thing in the other direction.
Re:The US dollar’s hegemony is looking fragile
by RobertoG on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:30PM
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QE per se is not inflationary, the only thing that does is to increase the number of reserves in the system reducing the interest rate (cheaper lending) but that doesn't have really effect if nobody is borrowing.
Fiscal policy is the level that you want to use for increasing/decreasing inflation. Somebody have to spend more in the economy if you want to see inflation.