Can the Fed Buy and Hold T-Bills?

The Fed can adjust the risk definitions or account for those, those treasuries as lower risk and remove them from that calculation. Janet Yellen came in last week and she started talking about the possibility of buying some of the long dated paper that's on these commercial banks balance sheet to swap it for short-term paper. And so I think they're looking at these things and trying to decide what to do. We're watching pretty closely what's going to happen in the next few weeks.

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James Lavish is a former hedge fund manager and CFA with 25 years of institutional investment and risk management experience. The Yale and Cornell alum, who at one point was drafted by the National Hockey League, was recently Chief Operating Officer of Alternative Investments at asset management firm LKCM in Dallas, Texas. James was also the co-founder and a managing partner of Ranger Arbitrage, Head Arbitrage Trader and Officer of the Compliance Committee for Carlson Capital. He is the author of The Informationist Newsletter, and a co-founder of the economic and Bitcoin education group, The Looking Glass.

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