The Fed Makes and Mints Money

[Parsad]

Article on the Federal Reserve Bank.  Cheers!

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/110863/for-uncle-same-the-fed-prints-and-mints-money;_ylt=AlkUymF3oOtICAGzuY1uyVO7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1aXEyZTduBHBvcwM1BHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawM3MGJpbGxpb25zdXI-?mod=bb-budgeting&sec=topStories&pos=3&asset=&ccode=

[SmallCap]

A couple of questions to make sure that I understand what I am reading:

 

What makes the fed balance sheet go up and down?

 

does the fed have anything on the liabilities half of their balance sheet?

 

Where do the assets that the fed used to buy these interest bearing securities come from originally?

 

SmallCap

[rmitz]

A couple of questions to make sure that I understand what I am reading:

 

What makes the fed balance sheet go up and down?

 

does the fed have anything on the liabilities half of their balance sheet?

 

Where do the assets that the fed used to buy these interest bearing securities come from originally?

 

SmallCap

 

Here's a somewhat old but good primer on some of the Fed basics:

 

http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_10/woolsey-fed.html