The right - hand (secondary) axis, which plots
the Fed purchase volume, is inverted so that the increase in bond - buying corresponds to a decline in the curve.
Not exact matches
«The concern now is that the
Fed may run out of Treasuries» During 1936 - 1937 the reserve authorities raised the reserve ratios in an effort to reduce the huge
volume of excess reserves in the member banks, while at the same timer being forced to continue
purchasing operations in order to assist the treasury inn its deficit financing.
Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the
volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been
purchased by the
Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.
Looking at this in terms of an extremely simplistic microeconomic diagram mapping the impact on the supply and demand of changes in the price and
volume of bonds, the retreat from bond
purchasing by The
Fed represents a left shift in the curve that maps demand for all combinations of price and
volume.
«The concern now is that the
Fed may run out of Treasuries» During 1936 - 1937 the reserve authorities raised the reserve ratios in an effort to reduce the huge
volume of excess reserves in the member banks, while at the same timer being forced to continue
purchasing operations in order to assist the treasury inn its deficit financing.