> > (email exchange) > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Mike wrote: > > It seems it was around 7 trillion notional. Do
Fed also re opening swap lines to ECB – looks ready to do more unsecured dollar lending to them and maybe others. They look to
Too big to fail should not mean restricted liquidity. Hopefully they don’t use the liability side of banking for market discipline. But as they don’t
[Skip to the end] On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Andrew wrote: AGY MBS UPDATE: 08/12/08 General Themes: Mortgages were weaker to dealer
I could fix this in twenty minutes… Money Market `Plagued’ by Libor That Fed Can’t Reduce by Gavin Finch (Bloomberg) A year after central banks
[Skip to the end] > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Andrea wrote: > > In case you haven’t seen this yet: A Fed
[Skip to the end] Hardly need a study to figure that out! This paper from the NY Fed was just released: The Effect of the
“Inflation is a problem,” she said. Yet the problem isn’t excessive demand, rising wages, or a tight labor market, but “negative supply shocks.” Once the
My guess is the GDP forecast the Fed is now getting from it’s staff is not a downgrade from previous forecasts, and may even be
The Fed is aware rate cuts don’t do much for near term financial disruptions. For example, the FF/LIBOR spread was first addressed with FF cuts,