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To: Errant

The Federal Reserve CREATES money (actually, debt) out of thin air. They’ve done this under Obama to the tune of $85 Billion Dollars per MONTH for over 4 years. They recently backed this off to $75 Billion per month, but it comes to over a Trillion Dollars a year, created out of thin air.

They take this money and essentially buy T-bills that helps to legitimize the US Debt, and they spend the other ~half on Mortgage Backed Securities (the stock market).

They recently blasted out a brag to the world that they have a $4.3 Trillion Dollar Surplus! Oh Goody! Guess where that $4 trillion came from and what it is comprised of? Yep, the same crap they bought with the money they created out of thin air. They are, in fact, as broke as I am, most of us are.


4 posted on 02/09/2014 8:06:28 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Gaffer

You’d think the US government could cancel the “debt owed to the Federal Reserve”. Then the feds could stop the quantitative easing and our tangental spiral to financial collapse. Or else it’s debt curve, have we got an asymptote in store for you.


13 posted on 02/09/2014 8:18:50 AM PST by grania
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To: Gaffer
The Federal Reserve CREATES money (actually, debt) out of thin air.

Not debt, just money.

They recently blasted out a brag to the world that they have a $4.3 Trillion Dollar Surplus!

No they didn't.

21 posted on 02/09/2014 8:57:36 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Gaffer
They take this money and essentially buy T-bills that helps to legitimize the US Debt

Just buying the bills citizens wont buy.

32 posted on 02/09/2014 9:20:41 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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