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Michael Howell: "QE Is Coming Back, Big Time"

Forward Guidance

CHAPTER

The Federal Reserve Targeting Reserves

The Federal Reserve is targeting the level of bank reserves that it believes are safe to use. The Treasury is issuing a lot of bills and wants to reduce the size of the reverse repo program. This could provide more collateral for banks, which can then lend against increased collateral. So what you've got here is an engineered flatlining or targeting of bank reserves.

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