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15 March 2019
Quantitative Easing-Down: Mortage Backed Securities
The Federal Reserve Bank plans to eventually replace MBS with Treasuries
As Fed’s QE Era Ends, a New Trillion-Dollar Bond Dilemma Emerges
By
Liz McCormick
and
Alex Harris
March 15, 2019 3:00 AM
> Size of Fed’s balance sheet is ‘trivial’ vis-à-vis composition
> Outright MBS sales, open-market bill purchases seen as options
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More than a decade after it all began, the Federal Reserve is finally
nearing the end
of its grand experiment in monetary policy.
The Fed, which has been paring its crisis-era debt holdings, may lay out plans
to end
the program at its meeting next week. Yet in the Treasury market, the close of the quantitative-easing era could open another can of worms
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