• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Technically that is how it has always been in the USA. The major banks were always private and overseen/regulated by the Board of Governors and they all have seats at the Federal Reserve Board, with leaders selected by a sitting US president and Speaker of the House, and which span multiple administrations.

    The US Treasury controls money creation by setting Interest Rates to limit the creation of money and by producing or destroying cash.

    All this says is that the treasury cannot do something it already wasn’t doing.