Crescendo

Notably, Stephen Miran and Nouriel Roubini recently published a paper about “Activist Treasury Issuance” which is their term that refers to the Treasury Department taking unusual actions to offset the Fed’s tightness. Both Miran and Roubini are economics PhDs and worked in various capacities with the Treasury Department in the past.

In the paper, th

Back during the 2010-2014 period in particular, the Fed was buying Treasuries as a somewhat optional way to boost the wealth effect, provide extra liquidity, and recapitalize the banking system.

(Early 2020 was a big exception to that, since the fiscal impulse and the rate of quantitative easing were so big that they overrode the rise in the TGA, which on its own would be negative for liquidity. The TGA was only increased that high basically for extra financial buffer to support everything else that was happening, since the sheer magnitude