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Is there any way to know how much new money the US is printing?
This chart summarizes the FED's balance sheet (things the FED has purchased - US treasuries, mortgage backed securities, etc.) nicely.  It shows the massive level of "printing" the FED has done in the past two years.  The FED "prints" new money to buy these assets. As lucius has pointed out the fractional reserve banking process also expands the money supply.  When the FED buys something from Bank A, then Bank A can take the money and start lending it out.  This process continues as the recipients of the money deposit the newly printed money in other fractional reserve banks. FYI....it took 95 years for the FED to print the first $900 billion.  It took one year to print the next $900 billion.