Thursday, June 24, 2021

Money Creation and US Debt

 

This graph showing log of M2 using Fred data:




Shows that the last year is not normal.


In the past foreigners were buying up and holding US debt but now they are not.



When foreigners were buying and holding US debt the US government deficits did not result in money creation, but if the Fed is buying the debt it is with newly created money.   


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