The Federal Reserve may not issue a central bank digital currency
What the document says“the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or a Federal reserve bank may not issue or create a central bank digital currency or any digital asset that is substantially similar to a central bank digital currency directly or indirectly through a financial institution or other intermediary.”
The new section 16A bars the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any Federal reserve bank from issuing or creating a central bank digital currency, or any digital asset substantially similar to one, whether directly or through a bank or other intermediary.
What the document actually says“the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or a Federal reserve bank may not issue or create a central bank digital currency or any digital asset that is substantially similar to a central bank digital currency directly or indirectly through a financial institution or other intermediary.”
The central bank may not issue a digital dollar. It may not create one either. It may not do so through a bank or any other go-between.
A digital dollar here means one the central bank itself owes. The ban also reaches anything much like it. Going through a middleman does not get around it.
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