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Last month, Bernanke announced the Fed's intent to buy $600 billion in U.S. Treasury securities, which is supposed to have the effect of lowering rates on long term loans for things like cars and homes.
Bernanke wanted to emphasize that these are the Fed's own reserves. It's not tax money. It does not add to the federal deficit.
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One myth that's out there is that what we're doing is printing money. We're not printing money. The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way. What we're doing is lowing interest rates by buying Treasury securities. And by lowering interest rates, we hope to stimulate the economy to grow faster.
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Pelley: Do you anticipate a scenario in which you would commit to more than $600 billion?
Bernanke: Oh, it's certainly possible...
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Like many economists, Bernanke believes it was the Federal Reserve itself that instrumental in causing the Great Depression with its tightfisted monetary policies.
So, he did exactly the opposite. In the panic of 2008, the Fed put up $3.3 trillion. And just this past week, the Fed revealed who got emergency help.
It turns out there were 21,000 transactions - including loans and purchases - with financial firms including Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, major industrials companies including GE, and even to foreign banks, including the Bank of England. Most all the loans have been paid back.
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I wish I'd been omniscient and seen the crisis coming, the way you asked me about, I didn't.
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ну вот, а вы переживали:
оказывается никаких денег никто не печатает. ну а те что в прошлом году не напечатали уже почти все вернули. Можете спать спокойно.
ну а если что, они ещё 600 ярдов не напечатают.