would we be better off if the fed was putting 85 billion a month on the debt instead of the market?

No! The way I see it fiat money damages everything it touches. Every dollar they print makes that dollar in your pocket worth less.

No. That money stimulates corporate activity, which in turn means more jobs. Most of the fed money is used to back the housing market.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-20/fed-keeps...

LOL. If the Fed were doing what right-wing nutjobs said it was doing, the cost of gold in dollars would be increasing instead of decreasing.

If we were on a gold standard, the dollar would have lost 25% of its purchasing power (and the deficit would be 25% larger) this year alone.

So printing money to buy debt is WHAT THE FED IS DOING…this lowers the interest rates on bonds and encourages people to buy stocks….and believe it or not, American stocks are the LEAST risky these days

The FED lives for debt. That's what the FED is all about, collecting interest on the money it creates out of thin air and lends out at interest.

we would be better off if the Fed was not expanding the money supply

and the government was paying on the debt.

The fed's quantitative easing works (imperfectly) to counteract the contractionary effect of President Obama's policies. Without that $85B per month, we would be in a long recession.

NO.