Friday, September 04, 2009

A recent Wall St. Journal article indicates that the Fed has doubled its balance sheet. Agency and mortgage-backed securities, mainly GNMAs, make up the bulk of the expansion. Is this another way of adding cash to the financial system? How long can it last?

1 comment:

Kumbu said...

What about the IMF's SDR allocation of hundreds of billions? There is always a way to create money out of thin air.