The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is an important monetary policy tool. The mainstream tends to focus on interest rate policy, but the balance sheet may have an even bigger impact on the money ...
Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said in a speech Tuesday that the central bank erred in slowing down the pace at which it rolls off securities from its balance sheet, arguing that the prior rate ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed that the central bank will end its balance sheet reduction program this year. This comes just five months after insisting quantitative tightening was ...
The Federal Reserve's balance sheet runoff is picking up steam after its monthly cap on unreplaced maturities doubled to $95 billion last month. Last week alone, it shed $37 billion of assets. As the ...
The Federal Reserve's campaign to reduce its balance sheet hit the $1 trillion mark last week. The Fed has been rolling off $100 billion in Treasury and mortgage bonds each month since last year.
Amid a strong U.S. housing market, low interest rates and unnervingly high inflation, the Federal Reserve has been adding to its bond portfolio even to this day, prompting calls to not just let the ...