Dodgy Fed Accounting, page-7

Central banks don't account for assets or liabilities at fair value.

They only have one shareholder and no stock price, and they aren't meant to make a profit. (Their role is to create economic conditions where everyone can make a profit.) If they ever run out of capital (as the RBA did last year) the government just gives them some more.


I am off to the Pais de Basque for Christmas in the morning. Stay safe everyone!
Happy Christmas
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(.... don't ask me for the Mallorcean.)

Timber1956

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