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The Fed has no way of ‘pumping money into the economy’ = they only alter interest rates.
Except by making loans they don’t plan on collecting (the swap line advances to CB’s?)
Which is functionally equivalent to fiscal spending which does add income and financial assets to the economy.
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> Rodger wrote:
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> You and I were talking about a 0% fed funds rate. Almost there, now. Last I
> heard, down to .25%. It will have no benefit. Wait, correction on that. There
> will be one benefit. It gets us almost to the point where the Fed will stop
> focusing on useless interest rate cuts, and start pumping money into the
> economy. I hope.
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> Rodger
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Thanks, way up!
Probably means USD credit is tightening up for non-US institutions, and maybe the unlimited lines are starting to get used for a lot more than just funding previously existing assets.
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> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Cesar wrote:
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> Fed swaps up $85.6 to $628B.
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| Survey | -28.00 |
| Actual | -25.76 |
| Prior | -25.43 |
| Revised | n/a |
| Survey | $40.0B |
| Actual | $1.5B |
| Prior | $66.2B |
| Revised | $65.4B |
| Survey | n/a |
| Actual | $286.3B |
| Prior | $143.4B |
| Revised | $142.6B |
| Survey | -0.8% |
| Actual | -0.6% |
| Prior | 1.3% |
| Revised | 1.5% |
| Survey | n/a |
| Actual | -5.5% |
| Prior | -4.5% |
| Revised | n/a |
| Survey | 75.6% |
| Actual | 75.4% |
| Prior | 76.4% |
| Revised | 76.0% |
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