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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Up In Smoke" data-source="post: 5411802" data-attributes="member: 79702"><p>The treasury controls the amount of money in the economy and the Fed where it goes.  The amount of money in our economy went from the 14T to 21T from 2016-2020 through QE and treasury auctions.  The dollar dropped more than 15% from 2016-2018 and made our treasuries very attractive to other countries who's money goes further IE the Chinese Yuan grew at about the same as our dollar shrank.  These treasury auctions as well as the injection of future tax dollars into the mortgage backed securities market raised the amount of money into our economy.  Very similar to a company expanding the number stocks in order to strengthen their cash position or pay for an expansion.</p></blockquote><p></p>