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Goldman Spots A Huge Problem For The Fed

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

 But I will say that we're not out of ammunition by a long shot," he said. Powell noted the Fed can increase its emergency lending programs and make monetary policy more supportive through forward guidance and by adjusting the Fed's asset-purchase strategy. Which, as explained extensively below, is precisely what the Fed will have to do: by as much as $3 trillion in additional QE just to offset the flood of new debt coming to the market in the next 6 months.

And just to remove confusion, there was this exchange which the "pajama traders" appear to have focused on:

Scott Pelley: Fair to say you simply flooded the system with money?

Jerome Powell: Yes. We did. That's another way to think about it. We did.

Scott Pelley: Where does it come from? Do you just print it?

Jerome Powell: We print it digitally. So we-- you know, we-- as a central bank, we have the ability to create money digitally and we do that by buying Treasury Bills or bonds or other government guaranteed securities. And that actually increases the money supply. We also print actual currency and we distribute that through the Federal Reserve banks.


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