The Fed is engaged in a high-stakes ‘learning-by-doing’ exercise. The ‘ample reserves’ the FOMC aim to maintain is subject to an unknown lower bound. The Fed will only really know it has hit that lower bound when liquidity conditions tighten abruptly and unpleasant things start to happen in the financial plumbing. It will then pivot dramatically, as it…
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