To be clear, the Federal Reserve has not been printing money. It hasn’t needed to, and that’s where the horrors of the Fed’s machinations become most apparent.

Once the economy got going, the Fed was supposed to stop printing money. The economy would then stand on its own. I used the phrase “supposed to” a number of times because QE didn’t quite ...

The biggest argument against the Fed’s new round of monetary easing, dubbed QE2, accuses the Fed of printing money, a rare draconian measure bound to create high inflation and a weak dollar.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell takes his seat to testify before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress ...

But the Fed could theoretically lose money, rather than make a profit. When the economy finally starts improving, the Fed may raise interest rates and start selling off lots of the bonds it bought.

Donald Trump says don't worry, America will always be able to pay its debts because the government can simply print more money. "This is the United States government. First of all, you never have ...

How the Fed injects money into the economy. The Federal Reserve doesn’t literally print paper dollars. That’s the job of the U.S. Treasury, which also collects taxes and issues debt at the ...

Ben Bernanke has given inconsistent answers on whether the Fed is printing money, at times saying it is and at times saying it isn t. Here is an attempt to sort it out.

Analysts warn that low-interest rates are promoting speculative bubbles. The Fed itself has downplayed the possibility that it’s behind asset prices. By Jeanna Smialek and Matt Phillips Before ...

That was QE1. There has long been speculation that another trillion-plus money-printing program called QE2 is coming, but only recently have there been concrete hints from the Fed along those lines.

Its central bank creates new money. In America, that bank is the Fed, which uses the new money to buy the IOUs the U.S. Treasury issues when it borrows money: Treasury bills, notes and bonds.

For over a decade after the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the Fed kept money cheap and plentiful in a well-intentioned effort to revive the economy from that debacle.