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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (277218)9/20/2010 7:05:14 AM
From: Giordano BrunoRespond to of 306849
 
Yes, apparently the sheeple pay the interest on excess reserves dedicated to the banksters and the size of those reserves isn't determined by general economic conditions but by bankster economic conditions.

We also discussed the importance of paying interest on reserves when the level of excess
reserves is unusually high, as the Federal Reserve began to do in October 2008. Paying interest
on reserves allows a central bank to maintain its influence over market interest rates independent
of the quantity of reserves created by its liquidity facilities. The central bank can then let the size
of these facilities be determined by conditions in the financial sector,
while setting its target for
the short-term interest rate based on macroeconomic conditions.

newyorkfed.org