The Fed Is Overindebted, Isn’t It?

05/24/2023 Thorsten Polleit

By any conventional measures of finance, the Federal Reserve has negative equity. In the long run, cooking the books only puts off the day of reckoning.

Original Article: “The Fed Is Overindebted, Isn’t It?”

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