all the fed has to do in order to tighten money supply is increase reserve requirementd

instead, they removed reserve requirements altogether

and raised rates

basically printing tons of new money and handing it to bond holders

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They could accelerate the contraction of M2 by selling the bonds on their balance sheet on the open market, but that would break the bond market. Instead they're just letting these treasuries mature and roll off.

The Fed got rid of reserve requirements a couple of years ago, but they are still paying interest on reserves.

Still waaaaaay better than where I live.

You are a lvl6-7 while we are lvl100+ 😵

They don't want to spend, print like crazy bitch and adding crap tons of stupid mean less taxes.