Sentences with phrase «toward paper assets»

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When real interest rates are low (or negative), investors turn away from paper assets with declining value and turn toward assets with real value, like gold.

Seth Carpenter, Selva Demiralp, Jane Ihrig and Elizabeth Klee find that some categories of investors appear to sell U.S. Treasuries to the Federal Reserve and rebalance toward riskier assets (corporate bonds, commercial paper, and municipal debt).

Apart from the new stimulus bill, the administration has committed $ 50 billion from Troubled Asset Relief Program funds toward foreclosure mitigation, and the U.S. Treasury has doubled its commitment to buy mortgage paper from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.