BANK TREASURERS SEEK SHELTER FROM THE STORM
Dear Bank Treasury Podcast Subscribers,
In addition to telling Senators this month during his confirmation that he is not a sock puppet, Kevin Warsh insisted that the Fed’s balance sheet is too big, is harming the economy, and that his job on Day 1 will be to shrink it back to where it was before anyone had ever heard of QE. But here is a question for the newsletter’s fellow bloggers, posters, and readers: how has it hurt the economy? Because, to hear the bank executives who met with investors this month, who were all about optimism and how everything is fine (for now), the harm it is causing is not much in evidence. Certainly, the Fed’s balance sheet cannot be as harmful as all the other chaos these days roiling markets, the price of gas, and fertilizer. The newsletter looks at the plan Kevin Warsh would pursue to shrink the Fed’s balance sheet and what would need to change to get the job done.
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