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The Repo Crisis and The Fed: Part 4

Quantitative Easing has resumed.   On September 17th, overnight interest rates in the Repo Market shot up to 10%, four times higher than they should have

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The Repo Crisis and The Fed: Part 3

The Fed is once again creating very large amounts of money and pumping it into the financial markets. So, it is not surprising that all the

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The Repo Crisis and The Fed: Part 2

Monetary Policy is the government’s most important economic policy tool.  If you really want to understand how the Fed conducts Monetary Policy, you must understand the

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The Repo Crisis and The Fed

On September 16th, the interest rate in the overnight Repo Market shot up to nearly 10%.  It should have been below 2.25%. There was no shortage

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Quantitative Easing Round Four

A new round of Quantitative Easing began yesterday when the Fed announced that it would create $60 billion a month to buy US government securities.

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