Where did anyone ever get the idea the Fed did not get paid it's $16 Trillion in loans back?

The Fed publishes it's balance sheet every month, and they've never exceeded $2.8 Trillion Dollars in outstanding Credit.

The Fed's current balance is:

Reserve Bank credit:$ 2,795,420,000,000

As you can see, they don't have any $16 Trillion Dollars in outstanding loans.

Most of that $2.8 Trillion is US Treasuries and MBS.

Securities held outright: $2,570,220,000,000
U.S. Treasury securities: $1,639,413,000,000
Mortgage-backed securities: $843,597,000,000

[link to www.federalreserve.gov]

So everyone getting their balls all in a bunch over this $16 Trillion that has already been repaid, is doing so over nothing.

The Fed loaned that money between Sept. 2008 and early 2009, and it monthly balance sheet never exceeded $2.1 Trillion Dollars during that time. It did not loan all the money at once.

Read the actual facts linked in the Fed's own H.4.1 Report, rather than Internet Rumors.