"Spent a bit of time looking into things like the $14.7 billion liquidity injection by the Fed shown in the image and some KOLs claiming the Fed is quietly expanding its balance sheet—saying one thing but doing another. Is this really comparable to the money printing during the pandemic? Since the Fed stopped quantitative tightening (QT) last December, it has indeed shifted to balance sheet expansion, increasing its asset size by about $40 billion per month. Just looking at the pace, it does seem faster than the massive liquidity injections during the COVID-19 period. However, this round of balance sheet expansion involves purchasing T-bills (short-term Treasury bonds), not traditional QE. Essentially, it’s about managing reserve adequacy to prevent liquidity stress in the money market (similar to preempting the 2019 repo market crisis), not actively injecting liquidity to stimulate the economy. It’s completely different from the flood of money during the pandemic. Plus, Wall Street is already trading on recession expectations, so a massive liquidity injection is unlikely. As for the $14.7 billion mentioned in the image, that’s purely riding the hype or intentionally misleading. This amount almost certainly refers to the Fed’s routine overnight/short-term repo operations, which are standard money market liquidity management practices done weekly. It has nothing to do with "money printing." From a trading perspective, this is pure noise and can be ignored. But hey, it worked. Posts like this somehow generate a lot of buzz and discussion. Why? Because they tap into people’s hopes for Fed intervention during times of panic. Turns out, X’s content monetization incentives just lead to clickbait and reposting gangs running rampant—same story everywhere, East or West. So how is this any different from the "mouth trading" during the Kaito era? State-run vs. private?