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What causes the Federal Reserve System to earn money?

Updated: 8/21/2019
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Earnings of the Federal Reserve System are primarilyderived from the interest the Federal Reserve Banks receive from their holdings of securities acquired from their open market operations along with interest from loans made to member banks.

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