Monday, April 18, 2011

The Fed is Now Pumping $200 BILLION Per Month

"… and we just passed $200 billion per month.
I’ve shown the below chart before in other pieces. However, given its significance, it deserves regular review.
This is a chart of the adjusted US Monetary Base. It’s essentially a very simple means of charting how much money the US Federal Reserve is pumping into the system (on top of QE 2 which is providing another $100 billion in liquidity per month).
As you can see, starting in January 2011, the Fed left a paperweight on the “print”button. Since that time, it’s put $500 BILLION into the system. When you combine the $100 billion in liquidity provided by QE 2, we’re talking about $800-900 billion enter the financial system in 2011 alone.
There is only one period in which the Fed engaged in a similar amount of money pumps. And that was… during the depth of the 2008 Crisis from October- December 2008 (the two periods are comparable as the Fed didn’t have QE2 in 2008)..."


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