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Monetary policy is just not that effective, overall. The Fed is not putting money into anyone's hands. It's just making bank balance sheets replace higher-inter

Monetary policy is just not that effective, overall. The Fed is not putting money into anyone's hands. It's just making bank balance sheets replace higher-interest paying asserts (Treasury bonds) with lower-interest paying assets (bank reserves) in the hopes that more lending will happen. But it won't. Fiscal policy is necessary. http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2012/01/mmp-blog-31-functional-finance-monetary.html http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2012/01/mmp-blog-31-funct...

meri_dian 9y ago
But that's not an answer to my question. I'm asking if - regardless of how policy is being executed now - money were distributed throughout the economy, would that accomplish the goals of monetary policy more effectively than the way it is traditionally carried out?
- jganetsk 9y ago
  Distributing money to the economy = fiscal policy.
- ultraluminous 9y ago
  It does answer your question - what you're misundestanding is that "distributing money throughout the economy" is fiscal policy, not monetary policy. That's what the OP meant by "fiscal policy is necessary" and "the government dropped the ball on fiscal policy". The Federal Reserve, as a body, and monetary policy in general by extension, does not posses the tools to enact fiscal policies. EDIT: oops didn't see OP already clarified.
  - meri_dian 9y ago
    But monetary policy is also injecting money into the economy. Both fiscal and monetary do this, but differ in two ways: the nature of the money injected and the way the injection is performed. Monetary policy increases the money supply itself through the exchange of money for treasury bonds and relies on banks to distribute this "new" money, while fiscal policy redistributes money that already exists (previously collected through taxes) and gives it to active businesses through government purchases rather than to bond holding institutions.
    - jganetsk 9y ago
      The interpretation that banks distribute that money is wrong. Banks don't lend out reserves: https://www.kreditopferhilfe.net/docs/S_and_P__Repeat_After_Me_8_14_13.pdf https://www.kreditopferhilfe.net/docs/S_and_P__Repeat_After_...

meri_dian 9y ago

But that's not an answer to my question. I'm asking if - regardless of how policy is being executed now - money were distributed throughout the economy, would that accomplish the goals of monetary policy more effectively than the way it is traditionally carried out?

jganetsk 9y ago
Distributing money to the economy = fiscal policy.
ultraluminous 9y ago
It does answer your question - what you're misundestanding is that "distributing money throughout the economy" is fiscal policy, not monetary policy. That's what the OP meant by "fiscal policy is necessary" and "the government dropped the ball on fiscal policy". The Federal Reserve, as a body, and monetary policy in general by extension, does not posses the tools to enact fiscal policies. EDIT: oops didn't see OP already clarified.
- meri_dian 9y ago
  But monetary policy is also injecting money into the economy. Both fiscal and monetary do this, but differ in two ways: the nature of the money injected and the way the injection is performed. Monetary policy increases the money supply itself through the exchange of money for treasury bonds and relies on banks to distribute this "new" money, while fiscal policy redistributes money that already exists (previously collected through taxes) and gives it to active businesses through government purchases rather than to bond holding institutions.
  - jganetsk 9y ago
    The interpretation that banks distribute that money is wrong. Banks don't lend out reserves: https://www.kreditopferhilfe.net/docs/S_and_P__Repeat_After_Me_8_14_13.pdf https://www.kreditopferhilfe.net/docs/S_and_P__Repeat_After_...