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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;InfleXion, post: 1307404, member: 29012&quot;]Please disregard the barrage of questions in my previous post. The following link on Wikipedia sheds enough light on the situation for my interest.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar#Means_of_issue" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar#Means_of_issue" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar#Means_of_issue</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>and then here there is a distinction between Treasury Bonds and Treasury Notes.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Treasury_bonds#Treasury_note" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Treasury_bonds#Treasury_note" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Treasury_bonds#Treasury_note</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The primary distinction between them being length of time to maturity, not inherent functionality. In either case they must be purchased with dollars or some sort of currency. Creating the bonds or T-notes does not increase the money supply, but rather retroactively the money supply is increased independently in order to purchase them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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