Making an important addition to the ongoing debate about Treasury-market liquidity, a new paper from the Bank for International Settlements provides sobering data on agency MBS liquidity with significant implications not only for secondary-market liquidity, but also primary-market stability…..
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As seems always the case, FHFA Director Thompson is as good as her word to Congress earlier this summer, announcing yesterday a review of the extent to which the Home Loan Banks and their System meet the mission assigned to them and, regardless, if that mission still makes sense. Building on our initial assessment of FHFA’s plans, we here turn to what the System, its allies, and reformers are likely to say and what FHFA and/or Congress will then do about it.
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