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Balance sheets
Why the Federal Reserve owns mortgage-backed securities — and what it hopes to achieve by offloading them
by
Justin Ho
Jun 2, 2022
It all dates back to the financial crisis of 2008-09.
Why the Fed's balance sheet is making markets nervous
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Phoebe Unterman
Jan 3, 2019
Robert Kaplan, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, on Thursday told Bloomberg that the Fed ought to think about slowing down how quickly it’s shrinking its balance sheet. What’s a balance sheet? It’s a ledger of the Fed’s assets and liabilities that, in the middle of the financial crisis, the Fed expanded as […]
Balance sheets, Bush and Bentley . . .
by
Richard Core
Oct 24, 2008
Jokes collected by The New York Times' Freakonomics blog from its readers ......