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ANALYSIS: The Fed Is Raising Rates, but What About the $8.3 Trillion Balance Sheet?

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ANALYSIS: The Fed Is Raising Rates, but What About the $8.3 Trillion Balance Sheet?
The Federal Reserve building in Washington, on March 19, 2019. Leah Millis/Reuters
Andrew Moran
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All financial eyes will be on next week’s policy meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The futures market is penciling in a quarter-point increase to the benchmark federal funds rate. But while all the focus among economists, investors, and market analysts is on interest rates, what about the Federal Reserve’s massive balance sheet?

Andrew Moran
Andrew Moran
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Andrew Moran has been writing about business, economics, and finance for more than a decade. He is the author of "The War on Cash."
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