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Re:Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality? by hammock on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:51PM (#29244795)
FED (in all caps) is a common way to refer to the Federal Reserve, as is the Fed. Don't ask me why.
Re:Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality? by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:53PM (#29244818)
IME its common in two groups of people:

1. American anti-Fed conspiracy theorists, and

2. Non-Americans who see the #1 without understanding the nature and assume its a standard US usage.

Re:Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality? by isoskeles on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @07:29PM (#29248075)
I read ZeroHedge occasionally, and I've never seen it spelled "FED" there. I'm wondering where you find conspiracy theorists who type it like that.
Re:Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality? by hammock on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @09:17PM (#29248679)
More kooky places than ZH. Which by the way is not as bad as you probably think it is.
Re:Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality? by JaimeThompson on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:00PM (#29248901)
"On This “Atom Bomb”- Anniversary, You’re Being Lied To About Hiroshima" was published by ZH. I would say denying that nuclear weapons and nuclear power are hoaxes is a bit off the wall.
Re:Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality? by trutannus on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:54PM (#29244831)
My personal exposure is a python method from a quant library called get_FED()