Yikes! One of the unmentioned costs of Fed monetary tightening is the one to US taxpayers.
Fed carrying $330B in unrealized losses on its assets according to Q1 financial statement. Which US tax payers are on the hook.
Adjusting for the appreciation in its assets the Fed had seen through the end of last year, the unrealized losses were an even larger $458 billion.
This makes the Ukrainian relief bill of $30 billion look like chump change. Although it is about the same amount as Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan which would about to $321 billion.
Nobody spends other peoples’ money like politicians and now The Federal Reserve. Who are also DC-based politicians.
And yes, the purchasing power of the US Dollar and M2 Money Velocity (GDP/M2) appear to be collapsing like a dying star.
