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IL09: The Money Revolution...Rethinking Economic Growth ft. Richard Duncan

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The Fed Created $10 Trillion or $12 Trillion in Foreign Exchange Reserves

The Fed created $3.5 trillion between 2008 and 2014 through the first three rounds of quantitative easing. It then uses that currency to buy US dollars, step two. Step three is to invest those dollars in U.S dollar-denominated assets like treasury bonds or bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. By 2007, if I remember correctly, the amount of investment by foreign central banks in the United States had financed 15% of all the debt in theUnited States up from zero.

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