Like, what's its purpose, and why is it so different from normal open-market operations? It seems like its just like open market operations, but just buying longer-term treasuries?
Like, what's its purpose, and why is it so different from normal open-market operations? It seems like its just like open market operations, but just buying longer-term treasuries?
The short explanation is that the federal reserve creates hundreds of billions of dollars and transfers it to rich people who own bonds in exchange for their bonds.