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Comment by lxgr

> Maybe it's easy for the Fed to acquire more cash as long as it's guaranteed not to be spent.

The Fed doesn't acquire cash, it creates it. USD banknotes are liabilities of the Fed, but that concept only makes sense when somebody other than itself owns them.

parent lxgr 1 year ago

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