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Do banks keep their reserves at the Fed in cash or can they be kept in US Treasuries?
This chart at the St. Louis Fed has a lot of people worried about future inflation, because it represents idle money that, when lent out, could eventually flood the world with 10 - …
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Is inflation a good or bad thing? Why do governments want some inflation?
Is inflation a good or bad thing? Why do governments want some inflation?
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Why does China keep their currency artificially low? Why is that a problem for the United States?
Why does China not want to let their currency go up?
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How does the concept of negative interest rates work? Are there any examples of this?
This term has been proposed in economics, what exactly is it? I thought interest rates never fall below zero. How would this work? Wouldn't it actually be a penalty to depositor …
