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In an ideal world the Fed would not "set" any rates - it would be up to the market. However, the risk is there could be more volatility on the short end withou
by beezle 4y ago
In an ideal world the Fed would not "set" any rates - it would be up to the market. However, the risk is there could be more volatility on the short end without the Fed 'anchor'. A compromise might be to greatly increase the target range from 25bp to funds target rate +/- 200 bp, lower bound 0.00 thus making a bounded floating rate. That might also require a shift in how lenders set rates on very short term debt to some type of period average, ie 3 or 6m average rate.