Expansionary Monetary Policy involves the Federal Reserve injecting money into t

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Expansionary Monetary Policy involves the Federal Reserve injecting money into the economy. Banks then take these ‘new reserves’ and loan them out, which effectively ‘creates’ money by allowing borrowers to use money that belongs to someone else. When borrowers purchase goods with this money, it ends up in the bank of whoever sold the goods to the borrower. This bank then loans out these ‘new reserves’ to another borrower, creating even more money. This process repeats over and over again, creating more & more money (the multiplier effect). This increase in the money supply is done to increase total spending in the overall economy to achieve economic growth.

The Federal Reserve injected a huge amount of money into the economy in response to the U.S. recession of 2008-9, but banks did not increase their loans very much, so the money supply did not increase by nearly as much as the Federal Reserve wanted. Create a thread and write a short paragraph explaining why you think that banks were so reluctant to increase their loaning activity.

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After 2008 economic crisis banks were just shocked by the scale of crisis, not to mention some of the leading banks were on verge of closure, Everyone in the economy just become risk averse.

After the sub-prime mortgage crisis banks just do not want to create more bonds or any other financial instruments.

The biggest banks in US were very much exposed to economic crisis, so they were too reluctant to loan money to anyone, Even at some point inter-bank lending was disrupted due to scale of this crisis, let alone customer.

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