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Central banks play a critical role in maintaining the economic stability of a country. Their primary objectives include managing inflation, stabilizing the banking sector, ensuring the value of money, and sometimes, promoting employment. The Debunking Economics podcast with Steve Keen delves into these functions, providing clarity on how central banks operate and their profound impact on the economy. Let’s break down the discussion and analyze the core concepts. This podcast segment also unpacks several aspects of their operations, offering insights into bond markets, interest rates, monetary policy, and the interaction between central banks, private banks, and the real economy. Let’s break down these topics for clarity and depth.

Now retail investors can invest in G-Secs and T-bills. Personally, I feel it is a win-win situation and a very important market gap being filled. Until now if we needed to invest in these securities, we had to go through mutual funds as individual investors.

There is a lot of concern in some quarters about central banks printing money to finance large budget deficits. And in other quarters there is concern that central banks are doing too little of it. Some worry that central banks are lending directly to the government. Others are assuaged when central banks buy government debt in the secondary market but not directly. Who is right? My summary of the article by Dr. Rajan (find the link of the original article at the end) where I have used balance sheets to visualize the flow. Meanwhile, I also found a few points which I found weren't mentioned in the article. Feel free to comment on what you think about it. Click here  to read the original article. 

-  by  Ben Bernanke in  G eorge Washington University   Money market funds (MMMFs) are investment companies that sell shares and invest the proceeds in short-term assets. MMMFs historically has almost always maintained stable 1 dollar share prices, so they act very much like a bank.