…this. They credit the private entity’s checking account to the tune of $1,000 (increases reserves by $1,000) b) Government issues a bond for $1,000 c) Private entity’s checking account is…

…the oil companies, private and state-owned, have current reserves on the books equivalent to 2,795 gigatons — five times more than we can ever safely burn. It has to stay…

…excess reserves confused with circulating money and therefore treated as harbingers of inflation, squealing for austerity,*** sterilization of shifts in reserves in a desperate attempt to avoid non-visible inflation. As…

by Rebecca Wilder Fractional Money Multipliers Money multipliers – the stock of money divided by a measure of base money (generally reserves plus currency in circulation) – are dwindling to…

…reserves as it adds to the banks each day and swapping cash in reserves for government paper.The resultant bond market drain is there to ensure that the central bank maintains…

Bruce Bartlett: The Fed has talked openly about new procedures to soak up the bank reserves it has created even as those reserves remain largely idle and unlent. You don’t…

…least they did before the Greenspan Put. Here’s a chart of Domestic Financial CP Outstanding and Excessive Reserves over the past twelvemonth: It certainly appears that the banks are using…

…and up from $2 billion in August 2008, remains on balance with the Fed in the form of “excess reserves). Just look at the crunch in the consumer credit space…

Robert Waldmann Non-Standard Monetary Policy Robert Lucas on Non-Standard Monetary Policy 2008 A dead end? Not at all. The Fed can satisfy the demand for quality by using reserves —…

…the oath Social Security’s reserves were below three months (TF ratio of 25) and steadily bleeding. If nothing was done it would mean cutting benefit checks sometime in 1983. 3)…