Economist Brian Wesbury comments on how the Federal Reserve (and eventually taxpayers) are paying hundreds of billions of dollars in interest to private banks to hold money printed during massive ...

Economist Brian Wesbury argues that the Federal Reserve's massive balance sheet expansion during Covid has not just distorted global financial markets but enabled an increasingly unaccountable and ...

Quantitative Tightening (QT) and lower interest rates have narrowed the Fed's asset/liability mismatch, reducing operating ...

The adjustment reflects rising sensitivity in short-term markets as liquidity becomes harder to maintain. Despite the ...

The manager of the Federal Reserve’s massive portfolio of securities said the central bank’s effort to reduce the size of its ...

As the central bank’s balance sheet shrinks, the standing repo facility will likely take on greater importance in capping borrowing costs, Roberto Perli says.

The overhaul will require more and better data gathering to fill gaps in knowledge, including indications of supply chain ...

An often overlooked segment of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheets has been growing and could boost the Fed’s ability to stop shrinking its portfolio sooner than expected. A set of deposits ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve could continue shedding mortgage-backed securities even once it stops shrinking its balance sheet. During its meeting Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Open Market ...

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that starting next month it will slow the pace of its balance sheet drawdown amid an ongoing impasse over lifting the ...

I ran across a post on X by financial planner Charlie Bilello about the trajectory of the Federal Reserve balance sheet. It pointed out that the balance sheet is 20 percent below its April 2022 ...

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 ...