
185. Making Sense of $30 Trillion in Bills, A Debt Ceiling Clock, & QT with Danielle DiMartino Booth
The TreppWire Podcast: A Commercial Real Estate Show
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Is There a Hidden Problem With QT?
QT is the reversal of the bond purchases that took place during COVID. The Fed has been reversing that with selling assets since I guess last summer give or take. Janet Yellen is being forced to deplete the nation's checking account because of the debt ceiling standoff. That injects liquidity into the economy and offsets the negative effect, mitigates the negative effect of quantitative tightening. But ODL every week at four 15 Eastern will tell you that the liquidity continues to come out of the system.
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