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If so, it doesn't follow that it would now be desirable for the Fed to "reflate" simply to make life easier for those who made leveraged bets on flipping condos (or gold coins) to some greater fool who failed to showed up after higher interest rates on cash made it more attractive at the margin to hold more cash.

Fed Attribution Error, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The explanation for this anomaly is that the Fed's $4.6 trillion added by quantitative easing fell far short of the estimated $10 trillion needed to "reflate" the money supply after the "shadow lenders" disappeared.

Ellen Brown: How Brokers Became Bookies: The Insidious Transformation of Markets Into Casinos 2010

Governments have tried to "reflate" their flagging economies by throwing budget-crippling sums at the banks, but the banks have not deigned to pass those funds on to businesses and consumers as loans.

Ellen Brown: Deficit Terrorists Strike in the United Kingdom: United States of America Next? 2010

The explanation for this anomaly is that the Fed's $4.6 trillion added by quantitative easing fell far short of the estimated $10 trillion needed to "reflate" the money supply after the "shadow lenders" disappeared.

Ellen Brown: How Brokers Became Bookies: The Insidious Transformation of Markets Into Casinos 2010

In addition, ruinous inflation for the people is then the answer to "reflate" the economy and save the big bank owners of the Fed.

THE END OF PRIVATE CENTRAL BANKING 2009

In combination with other Federal Reserve and Treasury programs, the plan may "reflate" the U.S. financial system, economy and, indeed, the stock market.

BofA, Devon Energy and Alcoa Advance 2009

The Fed can't "reflate," i.e., print money, because it is attempting to target interest rates (the price of money) via the setting of the fed funds rate.

Fighting Recession Instead of Inflation 2008

Metals and mining stocks continued their resurgence on hopes the government could "reflate" the economy.

Bargain Hunters Push Up GM, Alcoa 2008

Confidence in the Fed's capacity to cut rates, manipulate market behavior, and "reflate"/"reliquefy" has never been as unyielding as it today.

Edward Charles Ponzi Jr. post entitled "Another Economist's Thoughts About The Fed and Mr Bernanke" 2007

With the benefit of hindsight, one of the main conclusions from this paper was that as inflation and interest rates approach zero and the risk of deflation is high, the monetary and fiscal authorities must go beyond what most conventional models would suggest in order to "reflate" the economy.

2003 Investment Outlook 2003