1. Fed "loans" Treasuries against paper.
2. When the "term" is up and time for the "loan" to be repaid, the Fed says, "fuggetaboutit".
And the bad paper has been monetized right under out noses without sheeple US investors realizing how they've been hoodwinked.
Same old, same old.
It's sort of like how our National Debt works...
Other countries simply print money. But the world recognizes it and hammers their currency.
The US...
1. Authorizes a national debt ceiling
2. Floats bonds for the deficit
3. Never intended to repay the bonds with equivalent buying power, rather just print money to cover the interest and redemption of the bond at maturity
4. Congress raises the debt ceiling in perpetuity.
Same thing as "printing money", just less obvious so they get away with it better.