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Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by bequanna on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:15PM (#35225355)
> QE has no impact on inflation

This is the most false statement ever.

Anything that increases the money supply will increase inflation.

Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by tick_tock_tick on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:21PM (#35225412)
> Anything that increases the money supply will increase inflation.

Except we have actual numbers and history to prove that false....

Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by chasebank on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:24PM (#35225446)
Source? Did we not have rapid asset inflation since QE started in 08? Inflation pops up in all sorts of ways, not just blanket across the board.
Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by drexlspivey on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:36PM (#35225541)
Typically people mean core goods (CPI) when they say inflation not stocks and crypto
Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by gg82 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:09PM (#35226403)
If only people could pay core goods CPI to live and house themselves!
Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by bequanna on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:19AM (#35232808)
Umm… Housing? Energy?
Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by drexlspivey on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:36PM (#35239120)
CPI includes all that
Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by fallingknife on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:34PM (#35225526)
Here are the numbers to prove it true https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS
Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by drexlspivey on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:41PM (#35225605)
What does this graph prove exactly? It goes up steadily for decades where there weren't any inflation, and then had a sudden bump 2 years before the inflation started.

Inflation was caused by the massive fiscal spending (stimmies) not the FED

Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by fallingknife on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:29PM (#35226550)
The fed printing was done to pay for the stimmies. Government spends more than it takes in in taxes so it borrows. But it borrows so much that the market won't lend it the amount it needs to borrow at the rates it wants to borrow at. So the fed prints money and lends it to the government. They call this "quantitative easing" so they don't have to say money printing. Look at this chart of treasuries held by the fed. Notice how it mirrors the money supply. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST
Re:Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in... by dools on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:40PM (#35226627)
That's a graph that shows M2, not inflation. QE does have an impact on M2, but bank lending behaviour is not directly reserve constrained, so it has little impact on inflation.