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Checking your bank’s liabilities There’s a lot to see and think about on the assets side. But before digging deeper, let’s look at the liabilities side of the bank balance sheet — that’s where you’ll ...
Fed Governor Waller discusses balance sheet challenges, QT into 2029, and risks to Fed independence. Read the implications for markets if Powell leaves the Fed.
This study investigates whether the effects of monetary policy are amplified by its impact on bank balance-sheet strength. Or, in other words, it tests whether the bank-lending channel of the monetary ...
Shrinking the balance sheet is “an uphill task,” the paper by Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a former IMF Chief Economist and other researchers concludes.
The term "levers" in balance sheet management encapsulates the multitude of strategic options at a bank's disposal in today's digital age. Think of them as a bank's tool set, each tool designed to ...
That borrowing, which also saw other large-size Fed credit extensions, pushed the size of the Fed’s overall balance sheet up to $8.7 trillion on Wednesday, versus $8.4 trillion the week before.
A textbook argument in favor of adopting another country’s legal tender is that it imposes strong constraints on money creation and therefore fiscal dominance. In Ecuador, an officially dollarized ...