Re:How bad could the next recession be?
by postpawl on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @10:04PM
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The amount spent on the PPP and stimulus to individuals was dwarfed by the 450 billion the fed leveraged into 2.3 trillion to loan to banks and buy mortgage backed securities + bonds: https://apnews.com/article/municipal-bonds-jerome-powell-fin...
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It really makes you wonder where all that money went. Monetary Theory tends to treat central bank interest rates and government taxes/borrowing as two sides of the same coin. For various reasons the US has leaned more heavily on the interest rate manipulation over fiscal policy for the last ~30 years - but I do wonder if we're missing an accountability aspect of interest rate based stimulus.