Warsh believes large Fed holdings distort financial markets and favor Wall Street interests over those of Main Street. He’s ...

Long-dated U.S. Treasury yields will hold steady in the near term but rise later this year on inflation and Federal Reserve independence concerns, while short-dated yields edge down on Federal Reserve ...

By Sarupya Ganguly BENGALURU, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Long-dated U.S. Treasury yields will hold steady in the near term but rise ...

Back in ye olde days (pre-2008 in the United States), central bankers had not gone nuts with QE and so reserve balances were ...

Mortgage rates near 6% could shift as the Federal Reserve debates shrinking its balance sheet. Fed Governor Miran weighs QT, housing strain and yields.

Bitcoin has historically led both rallies and downturns in liquidity. Peaks in 2017 and 2021 coincided with slowdowns in global liquidity growth. Empirical work has shown that a meaningful portion of ...

None of this is to deny that a large central bank balance sheet carries costs. It facilitates government financing in ways that risk fiscal dominance and distorts the functioning of financial markets.

An immediate effort to unload some of the central bank's assets could do more harm than good. Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh ...

Warsh has called for a reduction in the Fed’s balance sheet, arguing that a large amounts of holdings could end up distorting ...

Warsh’s resolve has strengthened since and he has regularly cited QE as the defining feature of his critique of the Fed, its ...

Treasury Sec. Bessent says the Fed won’t quickly shrink its balance sheet even if Kevin Warsh becomes chair, signaling policy ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday he would not expect the Federal Reserve to move quickly to shrink its balance ...