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  • Where does the Federal Reserve get the money to loan the federal government?

    12/25/2020 4:25:26 PM PST · by Blood of Tyrants · 130 replies
    Freerepublic | 12-25-2020 | Self
    In the past during normal times, to raise money for the federal government, the Treasury would sell government bonds. However, in recent years, they have abandoned any pretense of selling bonds and have instead just printed more money. Which raises the following question)s); 1. If the fedres is just printing money, is the US actually borrowing it? And can we just print more money to pay it back? And the scary thing is that once the government discovers that when it needs more money it can just print it, it eventually does. The problem is runaway inflation which will destroy...