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Fed hasn’t paid Treasury a dime since August 2022: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESPPLLOPNWW https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESPPLLOPNWW
by amyames 2y ago
Fed hasn’t paid Treasury a dime since August 2022:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESPPLLOPNWW https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESPPLLOPNWW
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoThe Fed is cutting its balance sheet and thus losing money [1]. (When the Fed wants to lower rates it buys bonds, thus raising their price. That creates accounting profits. When it wants to prop rates up it sells bonds; that depresses their price leading to accounting losses.) The Fed isn’t pocketing change owed to the Treasury. It hasn’t properly owed anything on account of having shrunk its balance sheet by trillions of dollars [2]. [1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/fed-says-official-net-negative-income-was-1143-billion-2023-2024-03-26/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/fed-says-official-net-neg... [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
- daedrdev 2y agoThats because it lost money. It paid all its profit to the treasury, which was less than zero as raising rates causes it to loose its income