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> Just pay people to stay home. With what money?
by driverdan 6y ago
> Just pay people to stay home.
With what money?
- selectodude 6y agoThe Fed Money Printer (TM) has been running on overdrive for awhile now.
- loktarogar 6y agoThere's always money if they want to spend it. For what they pumped into the markets earlier this year, they could have given $7.5k to every American adult (or $4.5k to every single person inc children) https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/03/12/fed-injects-15-trillion-to-prop-up-crashing-markets/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/03/12/fed-inje...
- coredog64 6y agoThe repo market is not a direct cash infusion. It’s essentially the Fed propping up the price of US T-Bills (a good thing).
- eli_gottlieb 6y agoBottom-left quadrant of this. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1789676-money-printer-go-brrr https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1789676-money-printer-go-brr...