How the Fed Responds to Inflation

The Fed buys Treasury securities and shifts the dollars from their reserve account to their securities account. The government has to spend first or the funds aren't there to buy the Treasury securities, he says. "You can do this to an extent and eventually you're going to start to get inflation," Cohn writes.

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