Let me pose the question again. Your statement is since accounting balanced to 0, no money has been created. In that case, FOMC's account balance is also net zero when buying treasury or selling treasury. Therefore FOMC doesn't create or destroy money. So what is the purpose of FOMC again?
Edit: Instead of arguing with me, look up Money creation by the commercial banks in the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation
No. Nowhere have I written "no money". You have written it a few times. I have stated that the money is balanced by a matching debt. You also keep mixing fractional reserve and central bank purchases. These are entirely different things.
And FOMC is also zero sum - the dollars they inject are backed by debts they hold.
>look up Money creation by the commercial banks in the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation
Yes, I am quite aware of this, even having been involved in many discussions and papers on exogenous vs endogenous money. If you want to really blow your mind search those terms and read academic papers on them.
What you seem to not understand is that the money is offset by matching debt. Your link states this in the first paragraph: "A central bank may introduce new money into the economy (termed "expansionary monetary policy", or "money printing" by detractors) by purchasing financial assets or lending money to financial institutions"
The Fed traditionally purchases debt to put more current into play. As more dollars are in the economy, the Fed carries more debt, the same as any bank when it loans out deposits. The difference is the Fed can purchase as much as it wants, but the sum is still zero.
Look: the fed has a balance sheet. Here are many snapshots of it [1]. It sums to zero. Take the last one from March, 2016 [2]. Look at page 6, Table 1. There is a line titled "Federal Reserve Notes in circulation". It is 1385B. There are other assets and debts. They are summed. The sum is zero.
Next - this has zero to do with fractional reserve, since you could have either without the other. We (and most of the world) had fractional reserve before we had a central bank.
So yes, there is more money. There is also matching debt. This is what I have stated since the beginning. You don't seem willing to note that the debt matches the money in every case, whether it's Joe loaning Bob, it's a bank and fractional reserve, or it's a central bank purchasing assets. The central bank has unlimited reserves, is the issuer of currency, and can take on unlimited debt.
If it helps you think clearly, assume the central bank has 20 quadrillion dollars. They decide to add X dollars to the economy, so they buy X in assets. Now they have 20Q - X in cash, X in assets, we have -X in assets, X in cash.
Where the economy increases is when the people buy goods (say Treasuries), and their value in dollars goes up through market pricing, then they get sold to the Fed. The Fed didn't add the value, market pricing did. The Fed simply traded some of it's (unlimited) reserves for assets.
This is also why the Fed traditionally purchases at open market prices - it helps them match inflation since the market, not the Fed, decides prices.
So - are you still claiming all these stages are not zero sum? If so, please detail which step is not zero sum.
[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/quarterly-bala...
[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/quarterl...
You were the one using the friend lending example to say there's no new money created when debt is created.
You keep saying I wrote no money is created. I did not. From every single post in this thread:
My first post in this thread: "new money is added through asset purchases, not giveaways,"
My second: "if you think fractional reserve creates money (in the sense that the gain is not balanced by a matching debt), then paying it back "destroys" the exact same amount. Fractional reserve is zero sum"
Third: "Accounting does balance to zero. Debt and money are added, and they sum to zero"
Fourth: "I have stated that the money is balanced by a matching debt"
Literally every single post I wrote in this thread stated that money is added, and a matching debt is added.
Every. Single. One.
Have fun.
