Plain Sense Economics

“If the Federal Reserve is printing all these billions and trillions of dollars, won’t we suffer from inflation?”
I get asked this question a lot lately. First, despite the inference of the video provided by the Bureau and Engraving and Printing (see below), the Fed has not been running the money printing presses for extra shifts [...]

My head’s spinning with all of the once-in-a-lifetime monetary policy and other government action going on. Even so, this is a good moment to stop and review, in simple terms, what kind of problems the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department are dealing with and what steps they are taking. …very simple terms…
Liquidity / [...]