There are lot's of people claiming that an expansion of the balance sheet (M1) does not lead to an inflation of the monetary supply (M2) since the additional reserves created by the Fed can't be spent by the primary banks that receive them. This fails to account for the fact that the financial institutions that sold the bonds to the primary banks (who in turn sold...
There are lot's of people claiming that an expansion of the balance sheet ( M1 ) does not lead to an inflation of the monetary supply ( M2 ) since the additional reserves created by the Fed can't be spent by the primary banks that receive them. This does not take into account the fact that there being less debt instruments after the purchase (yet the same amount...
