When the Federal Reserve Bank buys a $10,000 US Treasury note, or any acceptable asset of that amount from a member bank, it can set off a ten-fold jump in money supply.
The US economy has been in recession for 16 months, a slide likely in three months to become the longest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
President Obama deals big bucks off the federal deck to help rescue a world running out of cash, while the scary brainchild of a Russian economist grows more ominous.