QE Explained: How the Fed Created Trillions Out of Nowhere
Quantitative easing is the Fed creating new bank reserves out of nothing to buy bonds at scale, which pushes down long-term interest rates and floods the financial system with money, though economists still genuinely disagree about whether it stoked inflation, asset bubbles, and inequality. Here is how it works, step by step, with every figure traced to a primary source.
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