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That’s still not “printing money”.

Printing money is an increase in the Federal Reserve’s nominal balance sheet size. You are conflating 2 different things.

1. The Fed lowers the target Fed funds rate HOPING to stimulate PRIVATE loan demand.

2. The Fed engages in QE by purchasing assets (usually govt and mtg bonds) with freshly minted (digital) money supply thereby directly injecting it into the economy. (There is a nuance here but it’s not meaningful to this discussion so I won’t go into it)

Also, loan creation has typically DECREASED at the beginning of periods where the Fed lowers rates. Why? Because we tend to be at the beginning of a contraction in the economy and people are scared to take out new loans. At any rate. Initially. Look at 2001 and 2008/9 as great examples of this.

If you don’t believe me, Ask nostr:npub1d3f4m9dgvkdjxn26pqzsxn6lpfn78sxwllxyt8mp76q0a9zyyjlswhr4xv or nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumtpd35kutn0dekqz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9ws56965n

Not trying to be argumentative. Just see lots and lots of Nostriches not versed in the plumbing of finance.

PPS

ACTUAL “money printing” is coming IMO. In 2026/7 as the AI and CRE bubbles pop creating trillions of losses requiring effective subsidisation/sterilisation.

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kyle-moore 4mo ago 💬 2

ig it depends on what you mean by money printing. base layer or layer 2 claims. we could see a rise in liquidity in the housing market if rates come down because of people siting on low rate mortgages no?

Chris 4mo ago

Exactly.

Lower short term rates CAN induce monetary growth. But it’s not a direct correlation.

QE (printing/expansion of feds balance sheet) has a more direct impact. (Again, oversimplified)

No need to parse it more than that 🙏🏻😉

Lawrence Lepard 4mo ago 💬 1

The banks print money by expanding their loan books. The create the new money ex nihilo. Out of nothing. My book covers this. Recent Tucker/Werner POD does too. The Fed prints reserves (QE) which aids the banks in printing money. It is all intentionally confusing. Guess why….

kyle-moore 4mo ago

so they can nudge the population into acceptance while putting the blinders on. getting them to fiat mine to repay their fiat loans on their fiat products.

Alan ₿ 4mo ago 💬 2

Lowering Fed interest rates is inflationary. Whether you consider that “money printing” or not is more of a semantic debate.

Chris 4mo ago 💬 1

It’s more than semantics. One is the road to inevitable hyper-inflationary collapse of a monetary system. One is not.

Most don’t understand the difference.

Both a match and a flamethrower are “fire”. 🔥

Alan ₿ 4mo ago 💬 1

If you don’t think we are on the road to hyperinflation, I don’t know what to tell you. This is why we Bitcoin.

Chris 4mo ago 💬 1

We are most DEFINITELY on the road to hyperinflation.

But it won’t be “lower interest rates” that drive that collapse. It will be monetisation of the debt. 💵 💴 💶 🔥

Alan ₿ 4mo ago

It’s both.

Sliver 4mo ago 💬 1

If it aint a free market, then it’s based on coercion. If the entire market is valued on the interest rate set by a cartel it aint free.

Alan ₿ 4mo ago

I agree. The fiat system is not a free market.