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I mean, yeah sure, it's trivially true that all spending by anyone in the economy adds some tiny portion of inflationary pressure. That doesn't mean that the F
by notahacker 4y ago
I mean, yeah sure, it's trivially true that all spending by anyone in the economy adds some tiny portion of inflationary pressure.
That doesn't mean that the Fed making depositors' bank balances that already existed continue to exist (and mostly continue to stay in the bank) most of which is simply a payout from an insurance fund doesn't add less inflationary pressure per dollar than most other types of spending, that the number of dollars involved isn't an exceptionally tiny fraction of the economy or that a 0.25% rise in the interest rate wouldn't have several orders of magnitude more impact in the opposite direction.