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If it ever is, she says, "I think the Fed is going to win out on that."
'This is why the Federal Reserve was invented,'says former Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen, 'to do emergency lending in a crisis.'
Whether the economy stabilizes depends on many forces out of the Fed's control, including whether the coronavirus's spread slows, whether other authorities put in place testing and monitoring programs to tame it, and whether treatments and vaccines are discovered.
The Fed said Monday it would expand a forthcoming program to provide financing to state and local governments squeezed by declining tax revenue
It also entered the crisis outside a partisan fray marked by distrust between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration, lawmakers and analysts say.
Rapid Response
Fed asset holdings have grown more sharply than during past quantitative-easing, or QE, periods, in which the Fed bought nearly $4 trillion in securities* to stimulate the U.S. economy
Change in holdings since the start of each program
*Treasurys, mortgage-backed securities and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Powell's measured response to President Trump's relentless attacks on him over the past two years have dispelled concerns among lawmakers that the central-bank chief would be a footman for the president or his re-election.
"The Fed is not naturally suited to do this," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a Republican former director of the Congressional Budget Office, "but the Treasury is using the Fed as its arm because the Fed is better at setting up these facilities and getting the money out."
Fed officials will hold a remote gathering Tuesday and Wednesday this week
She and former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke say the Fed's independence would be more seriously imperiled if it didn't act boldly to protect the economy.
"This is why the Federal Reserve was invented," says Ms. Yellen, "to do emergency lending in a crisis."
In that range, the portfolio would be twice the size reached after the 2007-09 financial crisis and nearly half the value of U.S. annual economic output.
It would make its role in the economy far greater than during the Great Depression or World War II, according to Wall Street Journal calculations

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It would make its role in the economy far greater than during the Great Depression or World War II, according to Wall Street Journal calculations
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Fed asset holdings have grown more sharply than during past quantitative-easing, or QE, periods, in which the Fed bought nearly $4 trillion in securities* to stimulate the U.S. economy
Change in holdings since the start of each program
*Treasurys, mortgage-backed securities and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Powell's measured...
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Whether the economy stabilizes depends on many forces out of the Fed's control, including whether the coronavirus's spread slows, whether other authorities put in place testing and monitoring programs to tame it,...
(Read more) top She and former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke say the Fed's independence would be more seriously imperiled if it didn't act boldly to protect the economy.
"This is why the Federal Reserve was invented," says Ms. Yellen, "to do emergency lending in a crisis."
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(Read more) top By supporting junk bonds and CLOs, the Fed could be helping private-equity funds that made their portfolio companies vulnerable before the crisis with heavy debt burdens.
"It does take a fair amount of work to think about all the incentives our facilities are creating,"...
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Many private-equity funds added debt to their portfolio companies before the crisis in the junk-bond and CLO markets. By supporting junk bonds and CLOs, the Fed could be helping private-equity funds that made their portfolio companies vulnerable before the crisis with heavy debt burdens.
"It does take a fair...
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(Read more) top It also entered the crisis outside a partisan fray marked by distrust between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration, lawmakers and analysts say.
Rapid Response
Fed asset holdings have grown more sharply than during past quantitative-easing, or QE, periods, in which the Fed bought nearly $4 trillion in securities* to...
( FED, CRISIS, HOLDINGS ) top
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Fed asset holdings have grown more sharply than during past quantitative-easing, or QE, periods, in which the Fed bought nearly $4 trillion in securities* to stimulate the U.S. economy
Change in holdings since...
( FED, CRISIS, FEDERAL_RESERVE ) top
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'This is why the Federal Reserve was invented,'says former Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen, 'to do emergency lending in a crisis.'
Whether the economy stabilizes depends on many forces out of the Fed's control, including...
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"This is why the Federal Reserve was invented," says Ms. Yellen, "to do emergency lending in a crisis."
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*Treasurys, mortgage-backed securities and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Powell's measured response to President Trump's relentless attacks on him over the past two years have dispelled concerns among lawmakers that the central-bank...
(Read more) top ... due to its bailout of investment bank Bear Stearns Cos..including when it foreclosed on a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, owned loans on Hilton hotels in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and sold a portfolio of debt on Red Roof Inn hotels after its bankruptcy.
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Many private-equity funds added debt to their portfolio companies before the crisis in the junk-bond and CLO markets. By supporting junk bonds and CLOs, the Fed could be helping private-equity funds that made their portfolio companies vulnerable...
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(Read more) top By supporting junk bonds and CLOs, the Fed could be helping private-equity funds that made their portfolio companies vulnerable before the crisis with heavy debt burdens.
"It does take a fair amount of work to think about all...
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(Read more) top By supporting junk bonds and CLOs, the Fed could be helping private-equity funds that made their portfolio companies vulnerable before the crisis with heavy debt burdens.
"It does take a fair amount of work to think...
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Fed officials have concluded they need to offer broad support to corporate-debt markets to prevent credit from drying up and producing even more wide-scale bankruptcy and job loss.
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(Read more) top ... forces out of the Fed's control, including whether the coronavirus's spread slows, whether other authorities put in place testing and monitoring programs to tame it, and whether treatments and vaccines are discovered.
The Fed said Monday it would expand a forthcoming program to provide financing to state and local governments squeezed by declining tax revenue
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(Read more) topLast month, he helped advance the $2.2 trillion economic-rescue legislation in Congress that puts the Fed at the center of the government's economic-rescue efforts.
Among risks the Fed is taking: that some programs won't work, that officials won't be able to unwind them,...
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The Fed will lend as much as 10 times the amount Congress appropriated, with the Treasury taking the first losses on loans that go bad.
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Last month, Fed lawyers helped nix legislative language that would have had Congress explicitly directing the Fed to launch lending programs, according to people familiar with the negotiations
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Mr. Toomey, who consulted with Fed officials during the negotiations, says he hopes Congress made clear such coordination was reserved for emergencies: "You have to be concerned about the precedents."
The Fed's actions represent a level of cooperation with Congress and Treasury...
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This last risk is prominent because the Fed's tools are better suited to helping large firms that borrow in capital markets than small ones that don't.
"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Catholicism without hell," Howard Marks, director of investment fund Oaktree Capital Management LP, said in a letter...
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After cutting interest rates to near zero in mid-March, the Fed began a torrent of bond-buying programs to stabilize markets.
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(Read more) top It also entered the crisis outside a partisan fray marked by distrust between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration, lawmakers and analysts say.
Rapid Response
Fed asset holdings have grown more sharply than during past quantitative-easing, or QE, periods, in which the Fed bought nearly $4...
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Whether the economy stabilizes depends on many forces out of the Fed's control, including whether the coronavirus's spread slows, whether other authorities put in place testing and monitoring programs to tame it, and whether...
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The Fed said Monday it would expand a forthcoming program to provide financing to state and local governments squeezed by declining tax revenue.
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"The Fed is not naturally suited to do this," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a Republican former director of the Congressional Budget Office, "but the Treasury is using the Fed as its arm because the Fed is better at setting up these facilities and getting the money out."
Fed...
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(Read more) top ... measured response to President Trump's relentless attacks on him over the past two years have dispelled concerns among lawmakers that the central-bank chief would be a footman for the president or his re-election.
"The Fed is not naturally suited to do this," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a Republican former director of the Congressional Budget Office, "but the Treasury is using the Fed as its arm because the Fed...
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Fed asset holdings have grown more sharply than during past quantitative-easing, or QE, periods, in which the Fed bought nearly $4 trillion in securities* to stimulate the U.S. economy
Change in holdings since the start of each program
*Treasurys, mortgage-backed...
( FED, DEBT ) top
(Read more) top See ( FED , CRISIS , DEBT )
(Read more) top ... due to its bailout of investment bank Bear Stearns Cos..including when it foreclosed on a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, owned loans on Hilton hotels in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and sold a portfolio of debt on Red Roof Inn hotels after its bankruptcy. Alvarez says the Fed can be patient with assets that go bad because it doesn't have to answer to shareholders.
The Fed's corporate-debt...
(Read more) top Ted Cruz (R., Texas) sent a letter to Mr. Powell asking the central bank to come up with ways to lend to oil-and-gas companies that have too much debt to qualify for existing Fed programs. Powell recently said the Fed's authorities wouldn't permit such rescues.
Last month, Fed lawyers helped nix legislative language that would have had...
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It would make its role in the economy far greater than during the Great Depression or World War II, according to Wall Street Journal calculations. The portfolio had reached $6.57 trillion by April 22.
"The Fed is being sent on a mission to places it has never been before," says Adam Tooze,...
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The Fed's actions represent a level of cooperation with Congress and Treasury not seen since World War II. Back then, the central bank held down long-term interest rates to help finance war spending and the recovery
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Treasury and Fed coordination during World War II "was the right thing to do, but it was hard to undo," says Jeremy Stein, a former Fed governor who chairs Harvard University's economics department
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This last risk is prominent because the Fed's tools are better suited to helping large firms that borrow in capital markets than small ones that don't.
"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Catholicism...
(Read more) top"I'd be willing to take more credit risk than I would have before this situation," says Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, "because this is a huge, unprecedented, negative shock."
The Fed's $600 billion Main Street Lending Program...
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Unlike in the 2008 bailouts, where the Fed and Treasury turned profits on bank rescues, Mr. Hubbard says, officials shouldn't be concerned about recouping the Treasury's investment
(Read more) top ... central bank to come up with ways to lend to oil-and-gas companies that have too much debt to qualify for existing Fed programs. Powell recently said the Fed's authorities wouldn't permit such rescues.
Last month, Fed lawyers helped nix legislative language that would have had Congress explicitly directing the Fed to launch lending programs, according to people familiar with the negotiations
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Mr. Powell defines the government's task from a different moral perspective.
(Read more) top Ted Cruz (R., Texas) sent a letter to Mr. Powell asking the central bank to come up with ways to lend to oil-and-gas companies that have too much debt to qualify for existing Fed programs. Powell recently said the Fed's authorities wouldn't permit such rescues.
Last month, Fed lawyers helped nix legislative language that would have had Congress explicitly directing the Fed to launch...
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(Read more) top Many government policy makers, including past Fed critics, support its actions this time, though political calculations could change quickly.
"This should be considered a very freakish Black Swan event, not anything that would be revisited under ordinary circumstances," says Sen. Pat Toomey...
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The Fed has long seen lending to states and cities as a political minefield. Its initial population restriction for municipal borrowers has already invited blowback.
In a letter to Mr. Powell this month, Rep
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Many government policy makers, including past Fed critics, support its actions this time, though political calculations could change quickly.
"This should be considered a very freakish Black Swan event, not anything...
(Read more) top The Fed successfully pressured the Truman administration to agree in 1951 to end that policy.
Treasury and Fed coordination during World War II "was the right thing to do, but it was hard to undo," says Jeremy Stein, a former Fed governor who chairs Harvard University's economics department
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Brian Sack, the director of global economics at investment fund D.E. Shaw who ran the New York Fed's markets desk after the last crisis, says that might not be well suited for the moment. Punitive rates implied by Bagehot might not be appropriate, and collateral is hard to size up in a mandatory shutdown
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(Read more) top... hell," Howard Marks, director of investment fund Oaktree Capital Management LP, said in a letter to shareholders this month, writing that "Markets work best when participants have a healthy fear of loss." Mr. Marks in a later interview said he didn't want to imply Mr. Powell's actions were wrong: "The fact that something can have negative, unintended consequences, doesn't mean...
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Fed officials have concluded they need to offer broad support to corporate-debt markets to prevent credit from drying up and producing even more wide-scale bankruptcy and job loss.
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Catholicism without hell," Howard Marks, director of investment fund Oaktree Capital Management LP, said in a letter to shareholders this month, writing that "Markets work best when participants have a healthy fear of loss." Mr. Marks in a later interview...
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The central bank experienced awkward moments in the previous crisis managing assets it held due to its bailout of investment bank Bear Stearns Cos..including when it foreclosed on a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, owned loans on Hilton hotels in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and sold a portfolio of debt on Red Roof Inn hotels after...
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Brian Sack, the director of global economics at investment fund D.E. Shaw who ran the New York Fed's markets desk after the last crisis, says that might not be well suited for the moment
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And with large-scale purchases of U.S. Treasury securities, the Federal Reserve is stretching the boundaries for what a central bank will do to finance soaring federal debt.actions that move it deeper into political decisions it usually tries to avoid.
Fed leaders don't...
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(Read more) top... circumstances," says Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.), who criticized the Fed after the last crisis for enabling large federal budget deficits. Last month, he helped advance the $2.2 trillion economic-rescue legislation in Congress that puts the Fed at the center of the government's economic-rescue efforts.
Among risks the Fed is taking: that some programs won't work, that officials won't...
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And with large-scale purchases of U.S. Treasury securities, the Federal Reserve is stretching the boundaries for what a central bank will do to finance soaring federal debt.actions that move it deeper into political decisions it usually tries to avoid.
Fed leaders don't like doing any of this
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Economists project the central bank's portfolio of bonds, loans and new programs will swell to between $8 trillion and $11 trillion from less than $4 trillion last year
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The Fed's portfolio of bonds, loans and new programs will swell to $8 trillion-$11 trillion, economists estimate.
Notes: Figures are as of year end, except final two
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Catholicism without hell," Howard Marks, director of investment fund Oaktree Capital Management LP, said in a letter to shareholders this month, writing that "Markets work best when participants...
(Read more) top ... Bear Stearns Cos..including when it foreclosed on a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, owned loans on Hilton hotels in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and sold a portfolio of debt on Red Roof Inn hotels after its bankruptcy.
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Fed officials have concluded they need to offer broad support to corporate-debt markets to prevent credit from drying up and producing even more wide-scale bankruptcy and job loss.
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Fed purchases help the government inexpensively finance its debt, which is soaring as the Treasury sends checks directly to households and spends more on unemployment insurance.
The central bank is preparing a second wave, programs in partnership with the Treasury to get loans directly to companies and state and local governments
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