Quote Originally Posted by GoldenBoy812
Those numbers reported ($9 trillion in guarantees) are not, repeat, are not dollars pumped into the system.

The Feds balance sheet is somewhere in the $2 trillion range (and most of that is not in the economy), with a larger intake of assets occurring in the near future as Washington gears for the stimulus package. The reason all the stimulus money is phased out over 10 years is due to the fact that the treasury cannot obtain the funds (Debt financing) unless it is spread out over several years.

There is no incentive (true incentive) that would allow investors to give that type of money to the federal government given the current rate of return on long term (not even considering short term) treasuries.
From what I understand, the rest of the $9 trillion came from the new budget and the printing of a bunch more money.
JaggedEdge Reviewed by JaggedEdge on . Why not just give everyone $38,709 instead? I was just thinking about how much money has been spent on bailouts and stimulus and this really put it in perspective for me on what's going on here. I took the roughly $9 trillion the Fed gave out to undisclosed banks, the $1 trillion dollar stimulus package, and the $2.1 in bailouts and added them up. Then I divided by the population of the United States. This gave me an estimate of $38,709 per person in the United States. So we can give out bailouts and spend on stimulus that much money, Rating: 5