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MNI's Jean Yung Asks About Fed QT

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  • Q: MNI's Jean Yung asks about Fed QT and how markets are reacting to it; and whether reaching the minimum level of necessary reserves is still several years away at the current pace?
  • A: We think it's working fine. We tapered into it and in September we'll go full strength and the markets seems to have accepted it. By all assessments, the markets should be able to absorb this and we expect that'll be the case. So I'd say the plan is broadly on track. It's a little slow to get going but it'll be picking up steam.
  • The process of getting back down to the new equilibrium [for reserves] will take awhile. And that time, it's hard to be precise, but the model would suggest that it could be between 2, 2.5 years. And this is a much faster pace than last time, the balance sheet's much bigger than it was. We look at this carefully and we thought this was a sensible pace, and we have no reason to think it's not.

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