# Can the New Fed Boss Shrink QE Without Crashing Everything?

An episode of [The David McWilliams Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1462649946), 12 Feb 2026, 44 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/e/698cbe0e5d2bf63a6d4ac90e/media.mp3

If central banks “control money,” why do we still get credit booms, banking crises, and bubbles, and what can a new Fed chair actually do about it? Who actually controls money, the central bank, commercial banks, or the markets? We break money into two parts: currency and finance . Once you see that split, a more unsettling reality appears: central banks can set the price of money (interest rates), but they don’t directly control the quantity, because commercial banks create new money every time they approve a loan. From fractional reserve banking and the “pull” model of credit creation, to why Treasuries sit at the centre of the whole machine, we explain what central banks actually do Can Kevin Warsh tighten and cut at the same time? Markets moved on a single sentence. The politics want low rates. The plumbing wants discipline. Only one of those can win. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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