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Crowding-Out: The Fed May Be Killing the Private Sector to Save Government

Crowding-Out: The Fed May Be Killing the Private Sector to Save Government
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington on April 10, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
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The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet reached its all-time high in May 2022. Since then, it was supposed to drop at a steady pace and shed $3 trillion by 2024. The normalization of monetary policy was built on the idea of a soft landing for the economy. However, the Fed may be killing the private sector to save the government.

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