Huge increases in the base have not led to large increases in money, because banks are holding on to excess reserves.

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Banks are holding most of them as excess reserves as precautionary balances.

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Some asset prices have been inflated (especially gold and bonds), but overall inflation has remained relatively low because people and businesses have been holding large cash balances, and banks have parked their excess reserves at the Fed for a risk-free return.

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