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How The Fed Holds $2 Trillion (And Rising) Of US GDP Hostage

By Tyler Durden

Created 04/28/2013 - 12:14

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US commercial bank loans and leases flat since Lehman, and yet US GDP higher by $2 trillion since the biggest bankruptcy in history. How does one reconcile this monetary and growth quandary? Simple. Enter the Fed.

• Excess Reserves
• Federal Reserve
• Gross Domestic Product
• High Frequency Trading
• High Frequency Trading
• Lehman
• Lehman Brothers
• Money Supply
• Reality
• recovery
• Unemployment

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