UUP - Federal Reserve Monetizing U.S. Debt Faster Than Its Previous Tightening
During its brief and utterly failed attempt to reduce its balance sheet (called quantitative tightening), the Federal Reserve only rolled off securities at a rate of $50 billion a month. It is now purchasing US treasuries at a rate of more than $55 billion a month:
The Federal Reserve continues to add more US government securities to its securities portfolio and these have been bought outright…. Since January 1, 2020, the Fed has added $113.7 billion to its securities portfolio.
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Buying securities outright is called "monetizing the debt" because the Fed creates money