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QE as any kind of remedy is a farce. At best it has a kind of placebo effect on the stock market. In reality, with QE the Fed exchanges reserve deposits for treasury securities to execute policy aimed at lowering longer term rates which is supposed to increase demand for loans. Those reserve deposits are not lent out because reserve deposits are never lent out. Reserve deposits are used for interbank settlement.


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