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Posted By thestatedtruth.com on November 9, 2010
What is Quantitative easing….and what is Monetization of debt?
Quantitative easing is the monetization of debt. It can take many forms from guaranteeing other obligations to outright purchase of Treasury instruments.
The one trillion dollar Euro Rescue Program is without any doubt as big a QE program as the U.S. Ben Bernanke plan.
The following is a definition from Wikipedia.
Monetizing debt
In many countries the government has assigned exclusive power to issue or print its national currency to independently operated central banks. For example, in the USA the independently owned and operated Federal Reserve banks do this.[1]  Such governments thereby disavow the overly convenient ’slippery slope’ option of paying their bills by printing new currency. They must instead pay with currency already in circulation, or elsefinance deficits by issuing new bonds, and selling them to the public or to their central bank so as to acquire the necessary money. For the bonds to end up in the central bank it must conduct an open market purchase.  This action increases the monetary base through the money creation process. This process of financing government spending is called monetizing the debt.[2] Monetizing debt is thus a two step process where the government issues debt to finance it.s spending and the central bank purchases the debt from the public. The public is left with an increased supply of base money.
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