Treasury issues a bond.
The Fed pays cash money to the Treasury for the bond; cash the Fed received from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for about the cost of printing the money.
The Fed cashes in the bond, so Treasury pays out cash (taxpayer?) money, plus the normal interest on the bond.
The Fed got the original money from Treasury, via BEP, so they return the interest to Treasury when they cash in the bond.
The Fed ends up with the amount of the bond, which they add to their reserves.
The Fed leverages their reserves through fractional reserve LOANS, earning (private?) INTEREST on ten times the amount of the original (public?) bond.
Money from thin air or clueless taxpayers?
Another outrageous lie from you. The FED does not pay Cash Money for the bonds they buy. The transactions are all electronic. When the FED buys bonds, it often turns around and sells them at a later date, usually so as to not interfere with posted dates of treasury sales. Remember, it is the Treasury that sells the bonds, not the FED to begin with. If the FED did not buy them, the Chinese or Japanese might. Regardless, if the bond issuance went unsubscribed, we would have a crisis like Greece has. We could not afford that.
The purpose of the FED is to provide stability in the Banking world. They are doing a tremendous job at that.
The FED reserves? You lying sack of shit!
Nincompoops like you always come up with these lies about how the FED is hoarding Trillions of Gold to keep the US off of the Gold standard or using alchemy to turn the Gold into lead so it will be almost useless other than for balancing weights for automobile tires.
Now, if you wanted to attack the Fed Open Market Actions, you could possibly create some consternation. The FED is comprised of Bankers. Who would be better qualified. As Officers in their own "real" banks they can perform market transactions that are not officially FED actions, but closely associated with FED actions to maintain stability. I think the perfect example of that would be the intricate transactions that took place when AIG was dying an ungraceful death. IF I remember right, there were several receiving companies that were formed by the real banks and the FED bought all of those toxic securities that had combined all of the bad home loans with some good ones and were sold on the open market. The only way to get them out of the banks possession was for the FED to buy them. This was not because the FED was making a prudent investment, but because it had to provide stability to the market. The receiving companies were then sold the Toxic notes as a prudent price and there was one less toxic problem out there to hinder bank lending and operation.
While the FED was doing a fantastic job of rescuing America, Congress refused to take action that would have prevented Goldman Sachs and others like them from working to rape the American investors. We need to stop the corrupt banks from playing with the stock market. Nothing has been done to stop that. Banks will make money any way they can and that is what they do. There are too many avenues open to them to do so in ways that many of us would consider illegal yet Congress has not passed legislation that would restrict the illegal activity. One of the correct rules that we need to pass is explained below:
The Volcker Rule is meant to prevent the nation’s biggest banks from engaging in proprietary trading, or trading for their own benefit, divorced from that of their customers, with federally insured funds. It prohibits proprietary trading at any insured depository institution or financial firm that is treated as a bank holding company. And it also bans those same institutions from sponsoring or investing in hedge funds or private equity firms.
We need legislation like this. We do not need to attack the FED because they have to work with the same banks that are in need of serious restrictions in what they can do. Congress needs to act. The FED can only do what it is legal for them to do. God Bless the FED, and my God eternally damn the corrupt Big Banks.