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Joseph Wang on the Fed’s Impact on Money Markets

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

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Is There a Free Lunch?

The overnight reverse repo facility, or RRP, is being used to control interest rates. It was originally supposed to be a temporary one, very kind of small use. But now the caps have been enlarged in the counterparty list and it feels like it's a more of a permanent growing facility. And so because it's costly for banks to hold all this money, what they're doing is that they're pushing it out to a money market fund.

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