Is there any limit to the Fed increasing the monetary base?
*Financial Times, by Krishna Guha , April 9, 2009:
"Having downgraded its economic outlook, the Fed wanted to provide
additional stimulus.
Officials settled on 'substantial additional asset purchases' because
schemes to provide finance for credit markets were taking a long time
to scale up."
'"Fed officials agreed the monetary base was likely to 'grow
significantly' as a result of large-scale additional asset purchases –
but still described this as a 'consequence' of policy rather than a
channel through which it might work.
One official 'in particular' did put specific weight on the need for
'sustained increases in the monetary base.' But the Fed still
stopped short of embracing a target for money growth or the logic of
so-called 'quantitative easing' – leaving a difference between its
avowed strategy and that of the Bank of England even though both are
now buying government bonds."
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