Comment: Nonsense

The reason why we haven't had hyperinflation yet is because QUANTITATIVE EASING (QE) is not inflationary per se. In financial market jargon, QE is nothing more than an asset swap. The Fed gives currency reserves in exchange for Treasury notes and bonds, but the total amount of currency reserves plus Treasury is not changed by QE.

1. Treasuries are not money! Buying treasuries with newly created federal reserve notes is not an "asset swap," it is monetization. Moreover, the Fed has bought many hundreds of billions of non-treasury securities.

2. The inflation is plain to see. Look at M1, it was $1368.2 billion at the start of 2008, and it is currently $2420.8 billion, that's an increase of $1052.6 billion, or 77% in just five years.

Those currency reserves do not circulate in the economy but rather find their way back to the Fed as EXCESS RESERVES earning a mere 0.25% as an over night deposit.

Suppose the Fed buys some securities from Joe Blow. Joe Blow deposits his proceeds in ABC Bank. ABC bank, not willing to lend in this economic environment, puts the money on deposit at the Fed to earn some interest. You're correct that the reserves on deposit at the Fed are not circulating, but you've forgotten about Joe Blow's money! He still has access to it, it's in his checking account, being spent regularly on goods and services he buys. The high level of excess reserves means that the money the Fed creates does not get multiplied through fractional reserve lending as it normally would, but the Fed is still creating money. Again, take a look at M1.

In fact, if anything QE is deflationary because interest income on Treasury debt that would otherwise have been earned by commercial banks is instead paid to the Fed which subsequently remits it back to the Treasury.

There's nothing deflationary about that. The money the Fed remits to Treasury doesn't get destroyed, it gets spent: on SS, and Medicare, and DoD contracts, and employee salaries, etc.

Basically Fed ran out of monetary bullets when they drove rates to 0%, but they needed to “do something” to at least appear to be relevant not to mention to justify the cost of keeping all those PhD’s on the payroll. This explains in part why the economic recovery has been so tepid despite unprecedented fiscal spending, (maybe because of it?). It’s the Japanese scenario all over again and let's not forget that Japan pioneered the practice of QUANTITATIVE EASING and look what it what it got them.... two lost decades and deflation.

If the Fed had any meaningful monetary bullets to shoot, WHY would they not have already fired them? In my opinion Fed QE is nothing more than the Fed doing a rain dance.

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the Fed can spur economic growth. Without opening up that can of worms, I'll just explain what the Fed is really doing, and why. Basically, it has two goals: support the value of bank assets and finance the federal debt. That's it. To do this, it needs to monetize lots and lots of debt, especially treasuries and MBS, which it has been doing in earnest for several years. It's really a rather simple operation, though it gets muddled by the mountains of BS they create to maintain the illusion that they're trying to facilitate recovery.