Quote (Black XistenZ @ Dec 21 2021 12:47am)
This distinction is irelevant to the point he's making: that the government can create money out of thin air without collateral effects like inflation, market distortion or undermining the budget authority of Congress. By this logic, all the decades of gridlock over the debt ceiling would have been futile - the POTUS could just tell the Fed "haha money printer go brrr", boom, problem solved.
The Fed was created by the house and made it an independent agency with the only influence being the appointment of its chair by the president.
So... no. It doesn't undermine anything. That's how all systems in America works. Congress passes a law, its enacted by administrations under the executive.
If the Fed doesn't want the money printer to go brrrr then it won't go brrrr until the president replaces the head at the end of his term with somebody willing to go brrrr.