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knzn.blogspot.com - 12/2/2008
Treasury Finance Policy
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Just a quick thought. Ben Bernanke suggested today that the Fed might start buying longer maturity Treasury securities now that it has done about all it can at the short end of the yield curve. Sounds like a good idea, but here's my question: If reducing yields on longer-term Treasuries is a ...
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 12/1/2008
Bernanke: Fed may buy Longer-Term Treasuries
— calculatedrisk.blogspot.com — From Bloomberg: Bernanke Says Fed May Buy Treasuries to Aid Economy “Although further reductions from the current... federal funds rate target of 1 percent are certainly feasible, at this point the scope for using conventional interest-rate policies to ... (more) Bernanke: Fed may buy Longer-Term Treasuries

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